In plain words
Man today does not understand at all what control of the senses is, and he has no grasp whatever of what restraint is. In such a state man roams freely as he pleases, as the fancy takes him. This free roaming is nothing other than a path that destroys humanness. In the power of control a kind of one-pointedness begins. Steadiness, too, takes shape. Humanness without steadiness is useless. We must recognise the goal. We must understand Satya. This alone is man's chief duty. When Droṇācārya taught archery, he laid down many kinds of methods. Among these methods, he set out first of all to teach one-pointedness and steadiness. For both of these the goal is most important. A life with no goal at all loses every good mark. He tied a bird to a tree. He called the Kaurava brothers and the Pāṇḍava brothers. He went on asking each one, “What do you see?” Many gave many kinds of answers. “The tree can be seen; the branch of the tree can be seen. Behind it the sky can be seen. The bird can be seen on the branch of the tree.” In this way they all went on describing it. Droṇa decided that none of them was fit for this. At the very last he called Arjuna. “Arjuna, what do you see?” he said. Arjuna: “Gurujī! Apart from one bird, I can see nothing else,” he said. What he wanted to achieve, what he wanted to experience, what he wanted to strike: apart from that, we must see nothing else at all. That is why Droṇācārya then held that Arjuna alone was fit for this archery. The reason is that we must not forget the goal. We must not let our gaze waver. To achieve a mind that does not waver and a gaze that does not stray: that alone is the right mark.
For students today the goal is most important. But students today are neglecting the goal. That is why they cannot reach the divine place they should reach. They cannot enjoy the Śānti and happiness they should enjoy. Even while living near Divinity, they forget Divinity and enter into impure sensual tendencies. That is why, however long they stay, though they stay ten years, twelve years, five years, their outlook does not change at all. What is the reason for this? They behave as if they had recognised the principle of the Ātma, but the principle of the Ātma does not make sense to them at all. Because they have wrapped themselves in the blanket of the feeling “I am the body”, they cannot understand this feeling of Divinity. What is this blanket? This is Māyā. This is Ajñāna. Because they wrap themselves in it, they cannot recognise Divinity, whose very form is Jñāna. There is a funny little story about this.