In plain words
From the time you rise from sleep until you go to sleep again, for the belly's sake you spend your life without limit or reckoning; your learning you pour away, the Lotus-eyed Lord you forget: what great happiness have you gained? Think it over with a willing heart, O man!
After acquiring so many branches of learning and winning so great a name, what use is it if you forget humanness! However much one who has forgotten humanness may learn, it is all mere waste and bears no fruit. Is there a little Prema, a little compassion, a little sacrifice in any man? When these are absent, what value is left in humanness! What meaning is there in saying, ‘Among living beings, birth as a human is hard to win’! Whatever he does, whatever he looks at, man scrambles only for his own belly; does he give the least thought to the well-being of society, to the welfare of the world? Only the one who toils for the good of society is a true person. Man today does not honour his fellow man as a human being. They honour worldly positions when they see them, but they do not in the least recognise the worth of a man's heart. They give honour to the position, but they give no honour to the strength that belongs to the person. A position is here today and gone tomorrow. But humanness is eternal, true and pure. Even to this day man makes no effort at all to recognise this eternal and true principle.
All the ṛtviks who took part in the yajña here have gone on reciting with great care and great devotion, carrying out their tasks, each his own. Because they have practised well from a young age itself, such great power has come to them today. In olden days mothers taught their children good habits from childhood.