In plain words
'This is the right punishment for it': so we must hold the mind firmly in check for a while, and be ready in that way to punish it. But a weakness keeps growing in man. To do wrongs, to incur faults. But to think that all this is the nature of man. They think that committing faults is natural to human beings. This is a great mistake. Committing faults and doing wrongs is not the nature of man at all. If we go on thinking in this way that it is human nature, it will run still further beyond bounds. Committing faults is the mark of the wicked. Who are the wicked? The dānavas. Those who live among evil feelings are dānavas. Those mixed with this rajoguṇa are dānavas. So we are not rākṣasas. We must not excuse these faults at all. These faults are not our nature.
Prema alone is our nature. Satya is our very form. Dharma is our own Dharma. What surrounds us is Dharma itself. Only when this Dharma is joined with tyāga does it become a yoga. When this Dharma is joined with attachment, it merely becomes bound to karmas. We must not bring any secret at all into this Dharma. Even though it is Dharma, by being joined with a secret it takes the form of karma, and we have to experience its fruit. A small example. Dharmaja was the very embodiment of Dharma. He was full of Dharma. He was Dharma in person. But, honouring Kṛṣṇa's command, he put a secret in there: 'Aśvatthāma hataḥ,' and then 'kuñjaraḥ.' He said it at a somewhat lower pitch. Only because he put this secret into it, Dharmaja went through hell, if only for a while. That is, the karma of that secret was the cause of what he went through. So no secret of any kind must be put into Dharma. Dharma is the form of God. It is not enough merely to say 'Rāmo vigrahavān dharmaḥ'. We must put that Dharma into practice. We must live it with joy. Whatever the circumstance, no aversion at all must arise in us towards it.
Today we think, 'We are devotees, we are devotees.' What are the marks a devotee should have? Are they in us? We think we have offered everything to Swami. If everything had been offered, where did attachment and hatred come from? You have kept all your evil feelings with you. You offer Me only good words. No, no: hand your evil feelings over to Me, and take My good feelings. For this you must do the right sādhana. If those evil feelings are with Me, they do not enter an evil path. If they stay with you, they will torment you. In the circus, if a tiger or a lion is with the trained man himself, it does him no harm. But if it goes near another person, it punishes him. All evil feelings are like wild beasts. The One who punishes all these wild beasts is God. He is the Master. Dedicate them to the Master.