In plain words
From rising out of sleep until you go to sleep again, for the belly spending without limit or reckoning, your life and your learning poured away, the One with eyes long as lotus petals forgotten, what great happiness have you gained? Think it over with a willing heart, O man!
What must we achieve? We take on so many kinds of toil. But the toil of God's darśan we cannot take on at all. We stand in a queue near a cinema and take whatever time it needs; at a bus stand we stand a long time in a queue for a seat and toil. There is no time to think of God for even a single moment. What, then, will you achieve? You are striving for what you like. This is not what we must wait for. We must wait for God's grace. We must wait for God's Ānanda. Only then is life true; life does not mean merely fattening the body, eating meals and passing life in comfort. Body is the Temple of GOD. Look after the body, there is no harm in it, but for what? A tree gives all its fruits. Fruits grow, as many as are needed. But does that tree, thinking ‘these fruits are mine’, eat a single fruit? A river flows. Does that river, thinking ‘there is so much water’, drink even a little water? Does a cow, thinking ‘there is milk in me’, drink even a drop? No, it shares it with others. But what does man share? What does he give up? What help does he give to society? Nothing. Always himself, himself, himself, himself. When man gives up this selfishness, on that very day he becomes worthy of God's grace. ‘Lokāḥ samastāḥ sukhino bhavantu.’ The whole world must be well. When we wish for the world's welfare, why will the world not wish for ours?