In plain words
If they bloom in the forest, who will wear them, who will smell them? Such a life is the life of these closed-up fools. Their heart never sets about being absorbed in the spiritual principle, or in the sacred principle of God. But some jñānīs make the flower that is their heart blossom and set about only grasping this principle of God. For the citta offered to God there is no principle left to enquire into, and no principles for it to hear. So in setting about our daily duties, offering our hearts with Prema to Him, or with the feeling that the One who dwells in our heart is God, we may believe that this itself is the mark of Śaraṇāgati. In this very matter, under the names āstika, nāstika and āstika-nāstika, the principles of God in this Prakṛti have been going along a somewhat muddled path. Here is an example of this. Inside a bush there is a lovely flower. The fragrance of that flower comes to us. Taking that fragrance as our guide, we go up to that bush and keep searching and searching, ‘Where is it?’ Now, those who, taking only the scent as their guide, keep making efforts to reach that form, are called āstikas. But some, saying ‘the scent is coming’, without searching for where that flower is, keep enjoying only the scent: these they called āstika-nāstikas. And there are some who have caught such a heavy cold that the scent does not reach them at all. Such people make no effort at all, either for the flower's scent or for the flower. These very people they called nāstikas. But we think that nāstikas means those who have no faith in God. That is not the right meaning of nāstikatva. A human being without self-confidence cannot be born in the world. All who have self-confidence are āstikas, not nāstikas. Without āstikatva, nāstikatva cannot stand. Those of you without faith in God say this very thing in English: there is no God. But there is came first. No God came after. In another phrase, if they are hardened Naxalites, God is no where.