In plain words
They called the man who covets and tries to enjoy what is not his own a thief. Both the government and the śāstras have forbidden the thief. Why? He covets what is not his own. He tries to obtain what is not his own. That is why Duryodhana met with defeat in every way. He lost the large heart that gives and takes with others even a little. If one tries to ask a miser for anything in the world, nothing comes of it. Only because he indulged such greed did Duryodhana destroy his life and his lineage.
Desire in the Rāmāyaṇa, anger in the Bhāgavata, greed in the Bhārata: these three purāṇas have taught these three clearly. Today, in the Kali age, he is becoming a man who has all three. The desire of the Rāmāyaṇa is lodged in him. The anger in the Bhāgavata is lodged in him. The greed of the Bhārata fills him. Those persons were destroyed by just one quality each; in this man three qualities are packed, so man will sink to a still lower state. We can remedy all these evil qualities with nothing but the one Name of the Lord of all.
Today is Śivarātri. Śivarātri means the auspicious night. Night means what is joined with darkness. But today is Śivarātri. It is joined with this, which is auspicious. ‘Candramā manaso jātaḥ. Cakṣosūryorajāyataḥ.’ There is a close bond between Manas and the moon. Today is caturdaśī. The moon has sixteen kalās. Man’s mind too has sixteen kalās. Today he has passed wholly beyond fifteen kalās and stays in only one. He is very close to us, so as to come near us. If humanness, which stands very close to divinity, remembers God’s Name with purity of citta, we shall very swiftly be blessed. Today it is essential to give no room to other thoughts and to make good use of time in the thought of God alone. We must not waste even half a moment of precious time. Time is melting away moment by moment. Like a block of ice. Like water leaking from a cracked pot, the span of our life is running out. In such a situation we must not set about wasting time, thinking we will do something or other some day. Enjoying such a good opportunity, we must achieve it by effort, always in Ānanda.