In plain words
The power of karma is the result of these desires. Our pleasure and pain are the result of these karmas. So we must do good karma. That is why all the Upaniṣads too: "Salutation to that karma." "To karma I bow first." God is not the cause of our pleasure and pain. You are the one who has charge of karma. God is the giver of the fruit of karma. Whatever seed you plant, such is the fruit. So if you plant a good sapling, only good fruits will come. So we must enter into sacred karma.
Only when the individual walks on the right path is there Śānti in the family. Only when this individual is pure does society take a pure form. Only when this society is pure does our country become pure. Only when the country is pure will this whole world be pure. So first of all there must be purity in what is called the individual. When does this purity come about? The impurities within are two. Selfishness and Ahaṅkāra: we must throw these two out. Merely throwing them out is not enough. We must bring in from outside Prema, forbearance, sympathy and purity. Life must take the form of a divine life. It must become an ideal form. We are living our life. We eat as the beasts, birds and animals do. As the beasts, birds and animals do, we enjoy the pleasure of the senses. Where is our purity? Whenever you look, it is blaming others, criticising others, being unable to bear the happiness of others. To swing high in Ahaṅkāra over one's own comfort: such animal nature brings about man's downfall. One thing in the mind and another in the word. This very thing roots out humanity completely. Is there humanity today? He looks like a man, but humanity has become empty. It is not to be seen anywhere at all. Wherever one looks, it is selfishness, selfishness, selfishness. Self-interest. This has spread its roots down the generations. We must pull out this selfishness that has struck its roots inside the heart and throw it away. Our Śānti lies in tyāga alone. In tyāga alone lies our Ānanda. Tyāga alone is our freedom from fear. The reason is this: as long as we have desires, we have a great many troubles. And a great deal of fear. When we practise tyāga, there is freedom from fear. There is no fear of any kind. That is why the Veda has said: "Not by karma, not by progeny, not by wealth; by tyāga alone have some attained immortality." We must enquire well into the Ānanda that lies in tyāga and the sorrow that lies in enjoyment. Even the yoga done in tyāga turns into an enjoyment. Ahaṅkāra in the act and attachment to the fruit: if these two are given up, that itself is tyāga. That itself is yoga. We must not let Ahaṅkāra grow in the karma we do. There must not even be the selfishness that says, "This is the karma I did; its fruit must come to me alone." You may plant a tree.