In plain words
The joys and sorrows, the pleasures and gains that belong to this world: all these are nothing but passing clouds. How many people have enjoyed how many kinds of pleasure? How many kinds of hardship have they suffered? Where are they? Were there not kings, did they not rule kingdoms, did they not rise high in pride? Where are they?
He who ruled the earth in ever-steadfast truth, Hari- ścandra: did he not leave this earth and go? Did the noble King Nala, who ruled all the worlds in splendour, take the earth with him when he went? Did Māndhātā, who was the adornment of the Kṛta age, bundle up his riches and depart? Is Śrī Rāma, who once bridged the ocean, on the earth now? How many, how many kings have gone! Not one of them takes the earth along with him; will you alone carry off the kingdom and its pleasures tied on your head, O righteous heart?
So it has been said. There is no one who takes his earnings with him. All are ones who leave everything behind and go. As he was born, so he dies. On the day they come, they do not come wearing even a cloth; when they go, they do not leave even an address. What is there to enjoy by holding on to these positions? Each one gets according to his own lot. But within what there is, we must enjoy this. We must attain purity. Not only this: we must become exemplary persons. Humanness is nothing but the person of this ideal. Karmānubandhīni manuṣyaloke. It is bound in this. This human body is a body formed for the sake of paropakāra. As far as you can, set it to work bound up with paropakāra. That itself is para, upa, kara: that is, take part in activities that go near to divinity.