In plain words
This is sādhana. For this sādhana we need not go anywhere outside. The vessel is right within us. The sugar called Divinity is right within us. The spoon called Buddhi is right with us. Why should we search? Where should we go? Where should we carry on a quest? All this is merely a kind of naivety.
Tyāgarāja went searching for Śrī Rāmacandra. The king of Tañjāvūr invited him, held a gathering and had him sing songs beautifully. Tyāgarāja looked at the assembly.
"So many great souls there are; to all of them, salutations."
"There are so many great souls; to all of them my salutations," he began. In this way he plunged the gathering into rapture. The king of Tañjāvūr went to give him money. He looked at it. "Is wealth the greater joy, or the presence of the Lord the greater joy? Tell me truly, O mind!" he asked himself. "I do not want it," he said. The king of Tañjāvūr gave him a palanquin and was sending him home. Some thieves saw Tyāgarāja in the grand royal palanquin. Thinking he would have money with him, they came chasing after him. The palanquin bearers spoke: "The thieves are all chasing us; they may kill us," they said. "Why should we be afraid, lads? We have no wealth at all to be afraid for. Fear is only for the one who has wealth. What fear is there for one who has virtue? In us there is only virtue, no wealth. Do not be afraid," he said. After a while the thieves came running and fell at Tyāgarāja's feet, praying to be saved. "Saved from whom? Saved for what? What danger has come upon you?" Tyāgarāja asked. "Two men holding arrows are chasing us," they said. Tyāgarāja, who had gone searching, thinking Rāma had gone off somewhere, the moment these thieves came and told him this, thought, "Are You my companion before and behind and on either side, O Rāma!" Though You were right with me, I went searching here, there and everywhere. Through what the thieves said he came to recognise that He was within himself. Such great souls God protects by staying right with them.
Rāma, protect me; Rāma, protect me; Lokābhirāma, protect me; Rāma, protect me!
Saying, "O Rāma, save me," he lost himself.