In plain words
In each of these living beings too, this seed called the Ātma has gone in again and settled there as the seed. So in each person too He Himself is present as the embodiment of the Ātma. Eko vaśī sarvabhūtāntarātma. What is present in all is the seed that was planted. But the students of today make no attempt to recognise this secret. Even the wish to know it is very slight. Some subjects or other, Physics they want, Chemistry they want, Mathematics they want: among these they devote their lives to one subject alone, and through that subject they make every fitting effort for a livelihood; but they make no attempt to recognise the principle that is the highest goal of life.
He studies Mathematics and never forgets it, but will not cast a glance toward gaṇita-śāstra; they look all about for the road to America, but he cannot see the road to Kāśī. He goes searching through the whole of Africa, but does not know how big his own house is. Day after day he goes through his drill, but to sit in padmāsana is an agony to him.
What is it, what is the gain of doing exercise of this kind? They do bodily exercise in so many ways. Sitting still is beyond them. The nature of such students rests only on what is seen outside, and is drawn by it.
'Tyāgenaike amṛtatva mānasu': this is the chief mantra. However many good deeds you do, however great the riches and plenty you abound in, all these are only unsteady and passing. None of these will give you immortality. What is it we must give up? Is it giving up property and possessions? Is it giving up wife and children? No. No. What is your bondage? Only when you recognise what that bondage is will you make the fitting effort to cast it off. Wealth and gold, goods and vehicles, wife and children, house and lands: these are not bonds. Thinking that you are the body: that itself is the great bondage.