In plain words
The wise must strive for the thing that does not perish
That which is neither at the beginning nor at the end, and is only in the middle time, is “mithyā”. This whole world was not there before creation. It will not be there in the dissolution. It appears in the middle time. It is temporary, not lasting. One must reflect in this way about every object in the world. The body was not there before it was born. It is not there after death. So in the middle time it appears, like a pot. That too is only imagined. Any object in that world must come under the sway of time, of death and of destruction. The tree perishes, the earth perishes, the house perishes, the body perishes; kings and kingdoms too, everything perishes. All that is a seen imagining in the world perishes. So the wise must strive for that which does not perish. Those who leave such nectar and fall into delusion over unreal things that bring a deathly state are like those who leave a grove of hibiscus and long for a forest of poison trees. He who leaves the Ātma, which is the original image, and longs for seen objects, which are its reflection, is ignorant, not a knower of the truth. In these three worlds, in the three times and in the three states, there is not the least real happiness. It is fools who desire the limited state of saṃsāra, not the jñāni. It is the camel, and no other animal, that leaves the vine of grapes and other choice fruit and runs towards thorns.