In plain words
From the time you rise from sleep until you go back to sleep, for the belly's sake you spend life without limit or reckoning; your skills you pour away, you forget the Lotus-eyed Lord; what great happiness have you gained? Think it over gladly, O man!
Embodiments of Prema! Human life is excellent, gracious and noble in character. To make such humanness worthwhile through constant effort and good deeds is man's chief duty.
To fill a span-long belly, going through troubles, a crore of skills you learn with great zeal, yet you cannot gain complete happiness; why should this human race wither away in sorrows? On the Supreme Lord the devotees who meditate: will He not show them the way, O man!
Embodiments of Prema! To fill a span-long belly you go through many hardships and earn money in many ways. But are you satisfied with that? No. Do you enjoy happiness and peace? No. “Na sukhāl labhyate sukham.” Happiness does not come from happiness; happiness comes only out of hardship. You long for happiness, but you are not ready in the least to take pains. If you want happiness and peace, you cannot escape going through hardships. Above all, you must foster the spirit of sacrifice.
Not only do they give fruit for as long as they live; even in death they give their bodies, split apart. For the spirit of sacrifice the trees themselves are the teachers: this is a word that tells the plain truth.