In plain words
Because we fix our mind on nothing but desires, and because the enquiry into good and bad becomes empty, this gives rise to some kinds of defeat. Whether a man says ‘God’ when his wishes are fulfilled, or, when his wishes are not fulfilled, defies Him, saying ‘This one is not God’, God suffers no troubles and no losses. But we must regard both of these as nothing but that person's weakness. That we, on the ground of personal ties and building on petty desires, make changes in Divinity, which is eternally Satya: the cause of this is nothing but the impure feeling within humanity. Keeping so many evil desires in this antaḥkaraṇa, however many sādhanas we do, however many times we receive darśan, sparśan and sambhāṣaṇ, it is very rare for satisfaction to come into our feelings. Here is a little story about this. A man fell ill in many ways. The doctor decided that the root cause of all this was indigestion. Then, for this disease of indigestion, he took medicines, changing them again and again. For an illness that has gone too far, it is hard indeed for medicines of any kind to work. But by some good fortune a great soul appeared: “My dear! To give your indigestion some passing relief, I shall tell you a remedy. You must keep taking it every day,” he said. The remedy he told was this: “Keep lumps of salt in your pocket all the time. If, the very moment one dissolves, you keep swallowing the juice of another lump of salt, this indigestion may go away,” he advised. Because he made a habit of this kind of remedy, the pain of indigestion seemed to have eased. Now, this man had made it his custom, whenever Dīpāvali came, to share out sweets to everyone. At daybreak he bathed. He put lumps of salt in his mouth. Swallowing their juice, he went to the shops to buy laḍḍus. At every shop he put a little of the sweet in his mouth to taste whether it was fresh or not, and saying the laḍḍu was not right, he went round many shops. A clever laḍḍu-seller noticed all his doings, and when he came up to his shop, said, ‘Sir, first go to the tap and rinse your mouth, then come.’