The student from sorrow was not able to eat. Then the wife of the teacher said to him: 'Student, eat! Why do you not eat?' He said: 'There are many desires in this man here, which lose themselves in different directions. I am full of sorrows, and shall take no food.'

In plain words: Upakosala is so sad he cannot eat. When the teacher's wife asks why, he says his many wishes pull him in different directions, and he is too full of sorrow to eat.