In plain words
He passes his time in Prakṛti, which does not last.
Advaita Alone Is the Basis of Everything!
Prakṛti goes with pravṛtti. Opposed to it, apart, there is nivṛtti. The basis of this nivṛtti is the supreme principle itself. To teach this supreme principle, to explain the principle that is the root and basis, Śaṅkara laboured hard. In that effort his guru Gauḍapāda kept giving him zeal and encouragement. Young though he was, Śaṅkara stood firm in his resolve. That at the age of only 16 he argued with so many paṇḍits, brought them all into the Advaita faith and rejoiced in it: the root cause of this was the divine power behind him! Advaita alone is the basis of everything! What does this Advaita mean? Advaita is nothing but the oneness of all things. Many children will have seen this. People make some figures out of sugar for them. They make a jackal, a dog, an elephant, all of them. But the children see only the form. They say, ‘I want the jackal, I want the dog.’ Jackal, dog: the forms and names differ in this way, but in all of them the sugar is one! Break off a little of the ear of that jackal figure and put it in your mouth! It is sweet. Put a little of that jackal's tail in your mouth! It is sweet. Its whole form is nothing but sweetness! In the same way, the whole world is Brahman. ‘Īśāvāsya midaṃ sarvaṃ’. ‘Īśvara ssarvabhūtānāṃ’. In this way Śaṅkara himself recognised the truth that divinity is everywhere, and went on teaching it. Devotees, from their own sense of difference, ascribe one particular form to God, confine their worship to that one form alone, and give no place at all to the other forms: that is the root cause of this fault.
Value Belongs Only to the Humanness within the Many Different Forms
A rich man, with a Bhakti that carried the feeling of Dvaita (he had great Prema for Kṛṣṇa), had an idol of Kṛṣṇa made and resolved that he would worship it every day, perform abhiṣeka to it, and himself drink the water of that abhiṣeka daily.