In plain words
This very thing they have also called parā vidyā and aparā vidyā. All the Vedas are nothing but aparā vidyā. All of them serve only the life of the world, the life of Prakṛti. The paths these Vedas teach for the ending of sorrow and the gaining of joy have brought forth courage, daring and zeal. These suit only the three, Dharma, artha and kāma. Mokṣa comes through Jñāna alone. How do we gain this Jñāna? Na karmaṇā na prajayā dhanena tyāgenaikena amṛtatvamānasuḥ. We gain this immortality through tyāga alone, not through worldly deeds, through reading, through sādhanas, through dhyāna or through japa: none of these is in the least beyond it. All the many kinds of sādhana we do today belong to the world. We practise them only for gaining the fruit we desire. They serve only to fulfil the mind's desires.
This spiritual principle is the principle that lies beyond the mind. All the actions we do today have certain causes. They have certain measures. They have certain limits. The spiritual principle is beyond all of them. They called it the principle of Mokṣa. Mohakṣayaṃ mokṣaṃ. The principle of supreme Prema itself is Mokṣa. What stands in the way of our attaining this principle of Prema? These: as we journey towards the holy principle of supreme Prema, midway along this path many try to block it. The first thieves are six. Those who stand in the way of man's holy path are kāma, krodha, lobha, mada and mātsarya. These six thieves stand across our holy path and give us no opening at all. And if we think, "Let us overcome them by some sādhana or by some grace of God and go ahead", there again the eight kinds of pride stand in the way. The first is the pride called wealth. The second is pride of strength. Pride of youth. Pride of learning, then pride of beauty, pride of kingship, pride of tapas. All these kinds of pride have stood in man's way and turned aside his holy feelings. Man today is filled not with one pride but with the eight kinds of pride. Though he has no wealth, there is the pride that he has strength. Though he lacks this strength, there is the pride that he has some learning or other. With so many kinds of pride man is in a daze. First of all, man's pride must come down. Though they have no wealth, they make a show as if they had it.