In plain words
Less luggage, more comfort, make travel a pleasure. Man's desires today have gone beyond all limits. Because of these desires that have gone beyond their limits, man strays from his course, loses his understanding, slips from his station and suffers unrest.
So only when man first keeps his desires in check to some extent will even a little Śānti come to us. So man must keep his desires in check and make efforts of certain kinds for the sake of God's grace. In the world today man is utterly cast down over blame and praise.
Being cast down and puffed up like this over blame and praise is a great weakness. You cannot curb it through learning alone. Even Vyāsa, who wrote the eighteen Purāṇas, fell prey to unrest. Vyāsa himself, who translated the Vedas and divided them, fell prey to this unrest. At last he asked Nārada to tell him a way to curb, at least to some extent, this unrest, this anger at blame, praise and scorn. Nārada told him: Vyāsa! Do not be cast down by blame. Do not be puffed up by praise. You must stand beyond blame, praise and scorn. How can that be possible for man? You must recognise the truth of the state the one who blames and the one who is blamed are in. What is man blaming? Is he blaming the body? Good. We ourselves are blaming our own body. We judge this body, made up of excrement, urine, stench, flesh and blood, to be merely a body of the five elements. At such a time, another person blaming our body is as good as helping us.
Well then, or is he blaming the Ātma? What is in the one who blames and in the one who is blamed is the one Ātma.