In plain words
Longing for these worldly pleasures, man makes many efforts for their sake. In the end his efforts bear no fruit; unable to enjoy fully what he has gained, he passes his life in despair and dejection. But ninety in a hundred people, with ceaseless toil, endless striving, boundless hopes and meaningless anguish, scramble to attain a form that cannot be attained, and at last reap unrest. Even with this he does not give up his efforts. He is forgetting the humanness and the divinity that are in man. He is fostering the demon in himself. Not only does he fall by his own doing; he brings his fellow man to a fall as well. The root cause of all this is neglecting a life bound by Dharma and bound by discipline.
Dharma is the root of everything. Dharma itself is a great virtue. Dharma does not mean only that man recognises and carries out his several duties in daily life. Many people think of Dharma as another word for morality. That can never be true Dharma. To hold the Caitanya that has come forth in man wholly fixed on Satya is true Dharma. Only when man's Caitanya-principle is tied with the feeling of Ahaṅkāra, with the thread of Ahaṅkāra, does it take form as a Dharma whose form is the three guṇas. When we regard the Caitanya of creation itself as bound to Īśvara, this itself takes shape as the true Dharma of the Ātma. To attain the feeling of the one Ātma is true Dharma. All these outward, worldly duties belonging to the world are only Dharmas whose form is the three guṇas. Svadharma. ‘Sva’ means the Dharma of the Ātma itself. Paradharma means the body's Dharma itself. The body's Dharmas are impermanent, bound up with change. Even age after age such changes go on happening. But we must not believe such Dharmas to be the Dharmas of the Ātma. The Dharmas of the householder, the Dharmas of the āśramas, the Dharmas of the varṇas: these exist in many kinds. These arose only for the sake of man's livelihood. We must follow the Ātma-principle and the Dharma of the Ātma, which belong to life's supreme goal. By following only the body's Dharma, we are turning into beasts. Then, when we practise the Dharma of the mind, it shows itself as a humanness that lasts only for a time. Only when body and mind both come together and bind themselves to the Ātma does this lead us to attain Divinity.