In plain words
One person looks at a tree. He sees only the branches that are visible, and does not see the roots that are not visible. But another sees only the roots, and does not see the branches. This is not the natural spirit of the search for Satya. The search for Satya means recognising the branches, the roots and the whole state of the tree: that alone is the search for Satya. The one who sees the branches is the scientist. But the one who sees the roots is the Vedāntin. Vedāntin or scientist, whoever it may be, to recognise all of it, the branches, the roots, the boughs and the twigs: that alone is the right search for Satya. Here is a small example of this. The devas and the rākṣasas, the two together, churned the ocean of milk. But out of it the hālāhala poison emerged. At that they gave no room to despair and did not yield in the least to dejection, but went on churning again. Then Lakṣmī, many splendours, amṛta, Airāvata and all such sacred treasures came to them. How did they come by them? They went on winning victory only because they carried on their tapas and sādhana in due order, never flinching or sinking in the least before the obstacles that arose. The man of today must search the human heart for Satya. Man's heart is the ocean of milk. When we set into this ocean the churning stick called Jñāna and churn, at first some despair and dejection appear. When we pay no heed to this and go on churning again, sacred qualities come to us one after another: Dharma, justice, Satya. Forbearance, sympathy, compassion and kindness keep emerging from it. So man must make the right effort to live by kindness, by Dharma, by Prema, by justice, by forbearance and by sympathy. Giving no room at all to the attainment of Satya that comes about in this search, the man of today is scrambling after things that are outward, worldly, material, unholy and unstable. For the attainment of the eternal Satya, every man must offer up the arts of his life. All the fine arts, every one of them, are born of the search for Satya. Even though we cannot recognise divinity in this search for Satya, certain signs appear precisely so that divinity may be recognised. Just as people point to a tree and say that the very star above its branch is the pole star, so divinity can be recognised through the signs of God.