In plain words
Within himself, he stays ever on the Ātma alone as his aim. How so? There are some worms that live in the mud, and yet that mud does not stick to them. Women put kohl on their eyes for adornment. The kohl shows as adornment, but it does not stick to the eyeball. We eat many kinds of oily foods with the tongue. However many foods we take in the hand and place on the tongue, the grease clings to the hand, but no grease stays on the tongue. The lotus in the pond cannot live even for a moment without water, yet it does not take the water into itself. The state of samādhi is like this lotus, like the eyes, like the tongue. So, for us to know the state of samādhi in this condition, there is the fourth phrase, ‘Kuru avadhānaṃ mahadavadhānaṃ’. Inquire without haste, with patience, with a steady feeling, with a tranquil heart. But do not do the opposite: do not rush and set out to enter into this with some kind of restless craving, with greed, with an anxious eagerness to gain it. Today we plant a sapling. It does not give us fruit the moment it is planted. That sapling takes some time to become a tree. Only after it has taken that time does it give us its fruit. We cannot sow a crop today and straight away, the very next day, bring the grain home. A crop takes some time to turn into grain. But today's sādhakas want fruit the moment they plant the sapling. They want the harvest the moment they sow the crop. Do not fall prey to such greed; give no room at all to haste or flurry; wait for this with calm, with patience, with forbearance, with a serene heart, and do not be hasty: to say this, Śaṅkara uttered “Kuru avadhānaṃ mahadavadhānaṃ” as the fourth phrase of this Bhaja Govindam śloka. Here, even to many who have longed for Vedānta, practised it, and recognised its principle with eager desire, doubts of one kind or another keep arising. Surely it is not possible to see oneness in these two, Brahman and Prakṛti!