चिन्तानद्या महावर्ते वीचिकानिचये चिरम् ।क्षणादुच्छूनतामेति मनोमीनः क्षणाद्गतिः
In plain words
In the great whirlpool of the river of anxious thought, amid the mass of its ripples, for so long — in an instant the fish that is the mind swells up, and in an instant it is gone.