In plain words
Here you yourself are the principle of the jīva, and your shadow is the very power of Māyā. Wanting to put Māyā behind you, however far you walk with Māyā kept in front of you, however fast you walk, you cannot put it behind you. If, instead, you simply turn your gaze towards the sun, Māyā simply falls behind you. So the bond between you and the body, the mind, the intellect, citta and the senses is the very shadow of Māyā. If, instead, you turn your gaze towards the Ātma, you will take no notice at all of the nature of your mind, intellect, citta and senses, and in that very sacred vision you will make your life fulfilled. So we must join such satsaṅga and set about experiencing in our life the sacred fruit that comes from satsaṅga.
From satsaṅga comes detachment; from detachment, freedom from delusion; from freedom from delusion, the unwavering principle; from the unwavering principle, Jīvanmukti.
How sacred a meaning lies in these words, you understand only when you experience it. But without experiencing it, merely by reciting ślokas you cannot attain any Ānanda at all. Since Śaṅkara gave the world these sacred words, these ślokas, we must set about practising each śloka in our life as befits it, as a lamp, as a sacred light that guides us.
Today we are experiencing, in its inner meaning, the śloka on satsaṅga among the ślokas of the Bhaja Govindam that Śaṅkara gave. When you make a fitting effort to experience this simply as purity of practice, whatever desires, whatever principles of the Ātma you are to attain later on through satsaṅga alone can be had in this very satsaṅga: I hope that, believing this, you will never put satsaṅga away from you, never take a liking to joining bad company, and will set your life in just this way, pure, spotless and selfless, under the sacred supreme principle.