॥॥
In plain words
That mother left her body. Then the boy grieved and grieved. ‘Alas, all this while you guarded me as the eyelid guards the eye, and today have you gone and left me, Mother!’ he grieved. Then his guru came: ‘What is it that you take to be your mother? This body? Are you weeping for this body that has been left? Why, the body is right there! Why do you grieve? But though this body is there, the power of Consciousness is not in it. This power of Consciousness itself is your mother. Attachments to the body and the forms of bodies are not our parents. For some time there is a bond of kinship with the body. After some time that kinship comes to an end,’ he taught. When we recognise Satya in this way and live by it, so many kinds of change come about. Once Śaṅkara was going to bathe in the Gaṅgā, taking his disciples with him. On the way an old man came in sight, repeating a grammar śloka, ‘ḍukṛñ karaṇe..’. Seeing him, even in old age, give up thinking of the Paramātma and toil for worldly learning that earns a living, Śaṅkara, meaning to make known to him the importance of remembering the Name of Govinda, spoke the Bhaja Govindam ślokas. Along with him, his disciples too spoke some ślokas. Describing the hardships and sorrows man meets on his life's journey, and urging him to strive for the grace of God that carries one easily across the ocean of saṃsāra, he spoke this śloka:
Birth again, death again, again lying in a mother's womb; in this saṃsāra, so very hard to cross, in Your mercy, to the far shore: protect me, O Murāri! (Bhaja …)
All of them went on teaching that things are different, but the root substance remains one. The underlying substance is one! We must not make these names and forms our support.