In plain words
It is not in renouncing all attachment.
Not tapas, not holy waters, not the śāstras, nor japa: none of these lifts you from the ocean of saṃsāra without the service of the good.
Not through tapas, not through dhyāna, not through japa does this Ānanda come to us. All these too are only good deeds, lived out for the sake of putting time to good use. In no place at all can we see the power that is in man's heart. Many kinds of hidden powers lie contained in man. Man's body itself is a great generator. Man's heart itself is a big magnet. Man's power of thought itself is a mighty current. So all powers of this kind, every one of them, lie contained in man himself. So, in the end, what did the Buddha decide? He came to believe that only when we put to good use the five organs of action and the five organs of knowledge that God has given us shall we gain true Ānanda. So, first of all, He began with what is called samyak dṛṣṭi. Whatever we look at, that picture sticks fast in our heart. So we must not look at evil sights. These evil sights, every one of them, keep painting themselves into our heart. However we may try, it is not possible for us to separate them out again. So we must look only at things and matters that are true, just and pure. ‘As the sight is, so is the creation.’ So today we must develop samyak dṛṣṭi. That is, we must nurture a vision that is even, pure and meaningful. Once any wicked feelings at all have taken root in our picture, we cannot drive them away. So, for the sake of samyak dṛṣṭi, there must be samyak saṅga. So only when this samyak saṅga comes about does samyak karma take shape in man. Falling in with evil company, falling in with the wicked, falling into evil conduct, we are ruining our life in all sorts of ways.