In plain words
Many great ṛṣis searched and strove, and were able to find God in the inner light; the Paramātma, who is formless to outward sight, they were able to see in bodily form; they were able to recognise the difference between carma and śarma. Śarma means Ānanda. What carma is, all of us know. The form of carma, that is, the form with a shape, has not come just to waste time somehow; whoever uses the form of carma to recognise the nature of śarma, he alone is called a man, and merely by knowing this, it is not caught, not gained; only when you practise it and see does some of it come within reach. Only when you search in the earth is the ruby found, but search for it in the air and you will not find it. In this body made of clay, you can know the Ātma, which is the ruby, and be happy; to make the efforts fit for this is the very duty of man.
We set many diamonds into a golden vessel and use it to cook worthless stuff — would anyone plough fertile land with a golden plough and plant milkweed in it? While sweet pāyasam is being cooked in his own house, is there a fool who goes begging from door to door? In the same way, when happiness is to be had in the seat of the heart, why should you wander here and there and make futile efforts? The all-knowing, the all-pervading, the Lord of all, whom we regard as Parameśvara: what greater Ajñāna can there be than to search for Him in other places and not in the seat of our own heart?
The elders said the Paramātma is like this, like that; all those things are nothing but their own delusions, and those who could describe Him rightly are very rare in the world. Of the Power that is everywhere, in everything, as Itself, who can say, “It is this; it is not this”? All is full of God; He is everywhere. To call Him the Indweller of all and then to think He is in some one place is sheer madness. Every one of them described the qualities and attributes of God according to their own likes and dislikes and their own feelings.