In plain words
Though it is within us, we make no effort to recognise it.
Does the sweet juice in the fruit know itself? Does the creeper enjoy the nectar in the flower? How would a scholar of pravṛtti know the literature whose essence is nivṛtti?
We are living the life of pravṛtti. We fail to understand the principle of nivṛtti.
He who acts without Ajñāna is man
Whatever it is that we try to understand, we must enter into that path. For this, faith must stay deep. Without this faith, the nature of the mind is very fickle. By this fickleness it scatters its own divine feeling. We must believe in God with a faith that does not waver or stray, like a ball of steel. We must not become a dry leaf. Put a dry leaf and a ball of steel side by side and see. Let a little wind blow, and the dry leaf flies away. Even in the gale of the dissolution the ball of steel does not move. The man of today is just like the dry leaf that is blown away! If the desire is fulfilled, well and good; otherwise they go running off. There is no firm strength there at all. That is, it is without energy. That energy is the power of God. All this is a matter. We take hold of this matter and strive, but we make no effort to experience the divine power within that matter. Though hardships, sorrows, pains or losses come, we must experience the divinity in which our mind stays unshaken and unscattered. This alone is true Bhakti. Every man must develop complete faith. A man who cannot believe in himself is no man at all. Believing only in the world and in the things of the world, man is becoming a slave to sense objects. But he does not become a servant of Viṣṇu. Such a man does not earn the name of man.