In plain words
Give up the company of the wicked; seek the fellowship of the good; do good deeds day and night; keep always in mind that all is passing.
First of all, we must develop satsaṅga. What does satsaṅga mean? Satsaṅga is the name for that very principle which is eternal and is never negated in any of the three times. Just mixing with some ten good people can never be satsaṅga. Sat means the eternal. It is that which does not change in any circumstances whatever. That itself is divinity. That is why divinity was called ‘Saccidānanda’. We must enter the company of Him whose very form is Saccidānanda. We must nurture such samyak dṛṣṭi. Through such samyak dṛṣṭi alone samyak bhāvas keep growing in us. Only when that samyak bhāva dawns in us does it take shape as samyak śravaṇa. Only when samyak śravaṇa takes shape do we keep doing samyak karmas. So all three of these are essential for trikaraṇaśuddhi. This is the very thing they have long called humanness. The proper study of mankind is man. What is this proper study of mankind? Pure feelings, pure words, pure deeds. Only through the oneness of these three does trikaraṇaśuddhi come about. The principle that comes with this trikaraṇaśuddhi is itself true divinity. So the feelings within us, the words within us and the deeds we do, all three of these, are samyak dṛṣṭi, samyak bhāva and samyak karma. We must bring about the oneness of these three. Only through the oneness of these three can man himself come to know his own divinity. The Buddha, who recognised this truth, was in the end blessed with Ānanda. Now the hour was coming when, in a few more moments, He would attain Nirvāṇa. On the very ninth day after the Buddha was born, His own mother, Māyādevī, died.
Studies Not Put into Practice Are Fruitless
The moment Māyādevī died, His aunt, Gautamī, began to bring up the Buddha.