In plain words
One who wants Śānti must keep desires in check
Start early, drive slowly, reach safely. This is the inner meaning of that saying! From today itself we must keep our desires in check. Many of you will have seen it in trains: Less luggage more comfort, make travel a pleasure. This luggage must be cut down little by little. That luggage is our desires. There is no check on these desires at all, no end to them; they go beyond every limit. If the cars in America were stacked one car on another, one car on another, they would reach the sky over there. These desires go higher still. So keep your desires in check. The more we check our desires, the more Śānti comes to us. One who wants Śānti must keep desires in check. As the cow grows, its horns grow too, don’t they! As desires grow and grow, in the end, some day or other, life is shattered in every way. That is what going mad is. Whether in money or in power, there must be no desires beyond measure. Let them be only as much as is right. We must not swell with Ahaṅkāra and so drag all our honour and dignity into the dust.
When wealth increases, pride increases; when pride increases, vices grow without cease; when wealth wanes, pride wanes; when pride wanes, the vices cease, Vēmā.
The nature of these elephants in rut, roaming in this pride, must be destroyed some day. How many have lived in so many ways, behaved in so many ways, lived with so much Ahaṅkāra! But where are they all today? All these are passing clouds. We must not put our trust in them and waste our life. Trusting God, remembering God, taking refuge in God, we must develop a way of life that comes to understand God.