In plain words
We must earn the wealth called Satya. ‘Satyānnāsti parodharmaḥ’, so we must follow Satya and Dharma and make our life blessed. If instead you earn a great deal of money, deposit it in the banks and sit guarding your passbooks, what do you gain? When we go, not a single naya paisa comes with us.
Emperor Alexander, who conquered the whole world, recognised this Satya at the very end and repented. Conquering the whole world as he went, he came to Bhārata. He travelled all over Bhārata. As he was about to leave Bhārata, he had a heart attack. Before he died, he summoned his ministers and officials. “I am in great distress. You must do me a favour and relieve my distress,” he said. The ministers: “O King! What is this distress that has come upon you? You have all the wealth you need. You have any number of servants to wait on you. What do you lack?” they said. Then Alexander: “What you say is true! I have all the wealth I need; I have heaps of jewels. But none of it gives me peace. At the end of my days it does not help me. So what I ask of you is this: when I am dead, raise both my hands up where everyone can see them, and carry my body like that to the cremation ground. ‘Alexander conquered many kingdoms. He amassed all the riches and wealth one could want. But at the end none of it helped him. Leaving behind the kingdoms he conquered and all his riches and wealth, he is going back empty-handed’: make this known to the people,” he said.
Man today devotes his whole life to earning money, and in the end departs in despair. At the very last, only the sacrifice we have made helps us! Only the wealth of Jñāna protects us for ever! So give up the craving for money and earn the wealth of Jñāna. Serve those in trouble. Feed the poor and the destitute till they are full. To worship a God you cannot see, without helping those you see before your eyes, is madness!