In plain words
At the very end one has to go with empty hands
What gives man Ānanda is his own inner feelings alone, not outer riches and positions. However great an emperor he may be, when the time comes for him to go he cannot take even a handful of earth with him. However many crores a man may own, at the end he has to go with nothing but empty hands. Money one has earned can be hoarded in banks, but in the end, ‘either they hand it to thieves, or it goes to the rulers!’ You know: Alexander set out to conquer the whole world. He crossed the river Sindhu and came even to India. But on the way back, halfway, he had a ‘heart attack’. With him were many physicians; there were thousands of soldiers. The physicians examined him and told him, “Sir, you will not live much longer; within a few minutes you will give up your life.” “Then do one thing. After I give up my life, wrap this body in cloth, raise both hands upward, and carry it in procession through the streets of our city. ‘What is this? Why have you raised the hands of Emperor Alexander?’ the people will ask you. ‘Though Alexander won so great a kingdom, he left it all and went with empty hands. Though he had a great army with him, though there were many physicians, no one could save him’: proclaim this truth to the world,” he said.
All the learning we study today is only worldly learning. Still, this too is needed. But what matters most is the inner feeling itself! We can read books; we can tell many people what we have read; we can earn money. Beyond that, this learning cannot give our life an ideal. What kind of learning must we study? We must study the learning that brings forth the human qualities within us. That very learning is called ‘Educare’. For this we need not read any ‘textbooks’ at all.