In plain words
To grow attachment and the sense of mine over them: that is bondage. The Buddha wandered about. He left his wife and son. Wandering on and on, at last he kept searching: "Which great soul will teach me the truth that belongs to my heart?" But what they said seemed one thing and what they did another. "Mokṣa will not come through these." He gave up everything and reached the bank of a river. He sat under a banyan tree. In this way he kept inquiring what is true and what is not. At last he realised and said, "All is sorrow, sorrow." He said, "All is passing, passing." He said, "All is empty, empty." Though everything appears, all this is only emptiness. But if you inquire, none of these is seen. These are not truths. The mansions and terraces seen in a dream are not there when you open your eyes, are they? As long as you are in the dream, everything appears true. In the dream a snake has bitten him. In the dream he is weeping. When should the weeping stop? When you wake him from sleep, the weeping stops automatically. You must wake him from sleep. In this life called the world, you are asleep. In this sleep you experience all your experiences as if they were safe, as if they were sweet. But here some troubles have begun too. You think about these troubles, you inquire into them. When will release come? Only when you wake from sleep and show the right ideal, that all this is passing and empty, will you wake from this sleep. From this young age: start early, drive slowly, reach safely. You must make the effort this Vimukti needs. Even if there is no bond at all, hunger torments you, doesn't it? "You must free me from hunger." Hunger too is a bond. You want money. You are poor. So this poverty too is a bond. Unless poverty goes, you will not be well. "I want that, I want this": so you have sunk in a great ignorance. Ignorance too is a bond. "Take me away from this ignorance. Take me away from this disease. Take me away from this hunger. Take me away from poverty."