In plain words
They are courting the body. They are looking at the body's beauty. Seeing that beauty, they crave it. Chī! This is not right. Born as a human being, and such delusion over this body that changes in a moment? All these are bodies that change from moment to moment! All are bodies that will fall away! In the very end they are bodies that burn away! What is youth like? This youth is nothing but clouds that come in the middle and go in the middle!’ Speaking a śloka in this way, he went on teaching the truth of the physical body. The young must conduct themselves with very great care. They must forget the outlook of the body. It is all only a body full of stench. Where does all that beauty and charm lie? These things only delude!
‘Do your duty; use the body in the thought of God!’
There is a story. A king had an only son. He reached the age of twenty-two. His father called him: ‘Son! You must become crown prince. You are twenty-two. This is the right age. I have resolved to get you married,’ he said. With the freedom his father had given him, the son went on to answer. ‘Father! The girl I wish to marry, I will choose myself,’ he said. The king was much pained. But he did not like to hurt his son. Well, saying nothing, he went inside. The prince felt some pain in his heart that he had spoken to his father like this. He had said it with his mouth, but his conscience was not satisfied. The boy mounted his horse. He thought of going to the forest for a change. He thought that if he roamed a while in the forest his mind might change. He was riding his horse along the bank of the river. A maiden, together with five or six companions, was going to the Gaṅgā with a pure heart, meaning to bathe in the Gaṅgā. That girl, for her part: ‘From my birth on, I must not see the face of a man.