In plain words
Time comes first in life; time is its measure. Don't waste time. Time waste is life waste. If you ‘waste’ time, how can you ‘taste’ the sweetness of life? Especially at this age, if you waste your time, how will fulfilment come to your life?! From the moment we take birth until we leave the body, we must go on doing karma in this land of karma. The coming of life itself is for the sake of doing karma. From birth until death, man keeps on doing karma. But no one tries to find out whether the karma he does is right or not. At this tender age itself, you must make good use of time. We eat food to nourish the body. But: ‘Is this food proper or not? Does it help life, or does it harm it?’ we must ask. The food we eat, the words we speak, the work we do: all these must be worthwhile. Only then does our human birth become blessed. ‘To action alone you have a right, never to its fruits,’ the Bhagavad Gītā taught. Man is born out of karma itself. He cannot escape doing karma.
A creature is born of karma, by karma it grows, and by karma it departs; karma itself is man's god; karma itself is the cause of joy and sorrow on this earth.
Born human, we must do karma that befits humanness
Every karma that man does has its fruit. For good karma a good fruit and for bad karma a bad fruit: you cannot escape experiencing them. When you eat a mango, does your belch smell of lemon? Or when you eat a lemon, do you belch mango? As the fruit, so the belch. In the same way, as the ‘food’ is, so the ‘head’ will be. ‘Food’, ‘head’ (thoughts) and ‘God’ (divinity): these three are closely bound together.