In plain words
By karma the creature is born; by karma alone it grows, and by karma it passes away; karma is God to man; karma is the cause of joy and sorrow on this earth.
Embodiments of Prema! ‘Jantūnāṃ narajanma durlabham’: birth as a human being is extremely hard to attain. Whether it is to bring change into this world or to make the world progress, it is man who is the very foundation. Of all the hardships and comforts, all the joys and sorrows he goes through in this world, man himself is the root cause. Hardship and comfort, the two, go together. There cannot be hardship without comfort, nor comfort without hardship. Man today, because he has fostered attachment to the body, is unable to recognise what humanness is. Because he recognises only the outer form, and does not recognise the thought and act by it, he is forgetting his humanness. Since he has given himself the name ‘man’, he must above all recognise the special worth of humanness. The special worth of human birth does not lie in learning great branches of knowledge and gaining great degrees. Humanness does not blossom through worldly education. Given suitable training, even cattle, birds, wild beasts and the like can master certain kinds of learning. Humanness has a special place in the world. Merely to widen one's acquaintance with books, to teach others and to rest content with that is not a quality worthy of humanness. Humanness is the kind of birth that has to hold out an ideal to others. We must first practise the good ourselves and then teach others.