In plain words
Tired out, he would lie down on that bedroll, and sleep would not come. He had come back very tired. You can live without food, but you cannot live without sleep. So, by day visiting temples and taking part in meritorious works, by night sleepless and worn out: what was the reason for this? In the body he was looking on beautiful images. He was bathing in sacred rivers. Darśan destroys sin. Touch releases from karma; conversation destroys distress. In all three of these he went on passing with success. But Śānti of the mind was nowhere to be seen. The reason? Many bugs had got into the bedroll he took with him. Because of these bugs, sleep would not come at night. Today our plight is just the same. In the body we seem to be enjoying many kinds of pleasures, comforts and joys. Within, the bugs called bad qualities, bad feelings and bad deeds have got in. So long as they stay within, Śānti is not to be had by us. Śānti is not something found in the outer world. Outside, it is all pieces. The Śānti of your own Ātma alone is true Śānti. Śānti is not something you earn. Nor is it had by reading. It is not received from gurus. You yourself are the embodiment of Śānti. You are the embodiment of peace. You are the embodiment of truth. You are the embodiment of God. We must try to recognise this eternal Satya.
Neither Śānti nor Ānanda lies in outer objects. If Ānanda were in outer objects themselves, why should we not enjoy Ānanda? We have the things we want with us, do we not? Why does no Ānanda come to us from these things? The people we want are there as our friends, are they not? Neither from things nor from people nor from the objects of the senses do we gain Śānti or Ānanda. Ānanda must spring up from you alone. Your own svarūpa is itself the svarūpa of Ānanda. We must recognise this Satya well. We need make no effort anywhere, either for Ānanda or for Śānti. It is not a thing to go in search of. It is something to make manifest. It is not something to look for. It is something to know. We must try to recognise the principle of eternal Satya that is in us. We are deluded that someone is giving us Ānanda. Delusion, too. So long as delusion is in us, Brahman is not seen by us.