In plain words
Yājñavalkya said, 'Maitreyī! Is it not riches, in this world, that above all bring happiness and peace? Are there people who reject such wealth?' Maitreyī answered, 'My lord! If that is so, could you not enjoy happiness and peace with this very wealth yourself? Why, then, renounce the world? It is not right to deceive helpless women with such illusions. If wealth means nothing to you, how could it bring peace and happiness to us either? These things are impermanent, fleeting, the very causes of bondage, nourished by ignorance, the hinges on which unrest turns, and defiled by attachment to the anātma.' When Maitreyī declared this truth so plainly, Yājñavalkya, with nothing left to say, bowed his head before her true words. Then Maitreyī bowed to her husband and said, 'My lord! You who know every secret must have asked this only to test our limited understanding. I want no enjoyments, and no riches. Instead, teach me the path to attain everlasting, supreme bliss.' So saying, she paid him homage. In reality, only one Supreme Brahman exists. While the Advaita scriptures proclaim, 'Brahman alone is real, the world is illusory, and the jīva is nothing other than Brahman', how can those who take these enjoyments and fortunes, dream-like visions that they are, these fleeting positions, these mirages of hatred, envy and selfishness, to be real, and, deluded, run after them, ever be gurus? Can they rightly be called knowers of truth? How can standing that rests on false seats of authority, teachings with no practice behind them, and precepts never actually observed, ever be held up as ideals? Is this not proof that such people lack even the natural qualification of true guru-hood? Such people are not gurus. To hold that the one Lord of all alone is the true guru of the universe — that, for a seeker, is the right path.