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यत्र यस्मिन्देशे अकथयमानस्य तूष्णीं भूतस्य स्वमाहात्म्यं प्रच्छादयतो येन केनचिदच्छन्नस्य येन केनचिदाश्रितस्य यत्र क्वचन शायिन आत्मानमेव लोकं पश्यतः जडमूकबालपिशाचादिवत्सञ्चरतः परमहंसपरिव्राजकाचार्यस्य प्रयच्छत्यशिवं भयम् अकल्याणमवमानादिकं प्रयच्छति ।तथा अतिरिक्तमिवाकुर्वन् यथा कश्चित् स्थितप्रज्ञलक्षणज्ञो ब्रह्मविदिति ज्ञात्वा प्रणिपातनमस्कारादिपूर्वकमीश्वरबुद्ध्या पूजयति तद्वदज्ञाततया अतिरिक्तं ब्राह्मणजातिमात्रप्रयुक्तपूजातिरिक्तं पूजान्तरं ब्रह्मविदनुरूपमकुर्वन् अवमानादिकमेव कुर्वन् यो जनः, सः अस्य विदुषः श्रेयान्, नेतरः यः प्रणिपातादिपूर्वकमीश्वरबुद्ध्या संपूजयति ।तथा चाह भगवान्मनुः—‘संमानाद्ब्राह्मणो विद्वानुद्विजेत विषादिव ।अमृतस्येव चाकाङ्क्षेदवमा
In plain words
In whatever place a silent, wandering paramahamsa—who conceals his glory, lives unobserved, sleeps anywhere, and wanders like an inert child or goblin—brings fear and disrespect, the person who fails to offer him special praise or worship him as God, but instead treats him with ordinary indifference or disrespect, is better for the sage than one who offers elaborate prostrations and worships him as God. As the venerable Manu states: 'The learned brāhmaṇa should shrink from honor as from poison, and long for disrespect as for nectar...'
Close to the Sanskrit
Where in whatever place of the one not speaking—keeping silent, concealing his own greatness, unveiled by anything, sheltered by anything, lying down anywhere, seeing the self alone as the world, wandering like an inert, mute, child, or goblin—the great swan wandering ascetic teacher gives inauspicious fear, misfortune, disrespect and the like. Thus not making excess, as some knower of the signs of one of steady wisdom, knowing 'he is a knower of brahman', worships with bowing and salutation and the like with the thought of God, similarly without knowing, not making extra worship beyond that prompted merely by brahmin birth, befitting a knower of brahman, but doing disrespect indeed, which person, he is better of this wise one, not the other who worships thoroughly with bowing and the like with the thought of God. And so said the venerable Manu: 'From honor the learned brāhmaṇa should recoil as from poison, and like nectar desire awama...'