In plain words
Come what may, go what may! The world itself keeps coming and going. Have all these stood firm as true? What is the name of this world? ‘Jagattu’, they called it. What is its meaning? Coming and going, nothing else! When this very world comes and goes, how long do our wealth, gold, goods and vehicles last? How far do they go? How soon does our youth come, how soon does it go? Why such Ahaṅkāra over it? If we act like that, we bring ill fame upon ourselves. In youth we must be very humble. That itself is true fame. Śaṅkarācārya passed away at only 32 years of age. A young age. How sweetly, how purely he lived! In every situation he went on leading his life with a most pure feeling. So his name and his fame have stood for ever. He studied all the śāstras. He learned all the Vedas by heart. At the very last he went on teaching only Advaita, the feeling of the one Ātma: ‘Ekaṃsat viprāḥ bahudhā vadanti’, ‘What is, is one God alone!’ ‘Listen, my son! Why this difference? You think that you are different, he is different, this one is different. No, no. The bodies are different. The five prāṇas in all are one! The very five prāṇas in me are in you. This is true Advaita,’ he taught. These five prāṇas are in everyone. Is there some prāṇa in you, more than in him, that is not in him? There may be many differences of the body. Ranks of office may differ, one from another. But the five prāṇas are one! He went on teaching Advaita, which recognises this oneness. So, Unity in diversity. We must grasp it today. All are embodiments of God! There is no such thing as one being a devotee and another a guru. In the worldly way, people think in terms of guru and disciples. This is the mark of pravṛtti. But all having become one is the mark of nivṛtti. God is not apart, separate from you. You yourself are God. Because you keep attachment to the body, you think you are a man. Put away attachment to the body; what is, is One! So we must cultivate the feeling of God and give up attachment to the body. We must serve all. Only when we are serving does this broad feeling grow in us.