In plain words
So it is only when we turn our gaze to face God that we become people who follow the sacred path. But as a rule every man tries to develop his gaze in the outward direction alone.
In the world there are only two states, Jñāna and enjoyment. Only some few go on experiencing the divine principle of the Ātma through the vision of Jñāna; the greater part make their lives worthless through the vision of enjoyment alone. But what is the fruit that enjoyment brings? What is the joy that comes from this comfort and wealth? What is the happiness that the outward gaze has won? These are the very things that little by little make us forget our humanness, push us into mere animality, and drive divinity far away! We do not recognise in the least the flaw in the object conjured out of the seen, and we stand ready to try to hide it. Once we truly recognise the very flaw in an object, we do all we can to cast that object away. When a snake itself comes into sight, the man who has recognised that this snake has poison in its nature, that it has this flaw, goes very far away from it. When we see a tiger, when we know that the tiger has a cruel nature, we try to stay very far away. In just this way, when we recognise the flaws in every thing, Vairāgya towards those things arises in us easily, without any effort. In every object in the world, too, is impermanence. That is the flaw that lies within it.
Not only that: the disease of ceaseless change dwells in this object as well. So an object that changes can never give a person who changes a fruit that does not change. From this we understand, too, how unwisely man is behaving. Even the object that gives happiness is impermanent. The one who receives it is impermanent as well. When both of these are impermanent, how people take this happiness for lasting happiness passes understanding. Happiness that is Satya, only an object that is Satya can give. Only a lasting object can give lasting happiness.
So the one object that is Satya and lasting is the Ātma alone. We are not making the effort it takes to recognise this principle of the Ātma. When we strive in earnest, the chance will be ours to experience not only the principle of the Ātma but the Ānanda of the Ātma as well.