In plain words
When the mother who raised and nourished him with so much love for so many years suddenly leaves the body, the son falls upon her dead body and wails, ‘Mother! Have you left me and gone?’ Where has his mother gone? The body he used to call ‘Mother’ is right there! If that body really were his mother, he could keep it at home, couldn't he! But does he do so? He does not. He carries that body away and burns it to ashes. So all these are nothing but delusions; there is no Satya in them at all. All these are like drifting clouds. The Ātma alone is eternal. Whatever happens, the Ātma does not stir in the least; it does not change. You yourselves are embodiments of the Ātma, yet you imagine that the Ātma is somewhere else and go searching for it. What does Ātma mean? It is Consciousness itself. What fills everything everywhere is Consciousness itself. All is nothing but Consciousness. As long as there is consciousness in our body, our relatives and friends show us honour and courtesy in so many ways. The very moment consciousness leaves the body, those same people carry it away and mercilessly throw it into the fire.
If the mind is good, nothing but good will happen
We are all nothing but embodiments of God! But under the delusion that God is separate from us, we pass our time doing bhajan, dhyāna and japa. Instead of merely sitting with closed eyes in the name of dhyāna, try to understand the principle of God.
Hearing, singing, remembering Viṣṇu, serving His feet, worship, salutation, servitude, friendship and the offering of the self:
these we regard as the nine kinds of sādhana we must do. In the word ‘sādhana’, ‘sā’ means sālokya, sārūpya, sāmīpya and sāyujya. Man today forgets the ‘sā’ and scrambles after the ‘dhana’, the wealth. Everything is done through money alone.