In plain words
Every human being does need food. This food is not a thing … to bind. But such sacred, nectar-like food gives one health only when one eats it in measure. But when one eats too much, that same food turns into poison. When man holds his desires in measure, in a way that does good, he can enjoy his own Śānti and happiness. But as the age of civilisation grows, the gentleness and sweetness in humanness waste away. This modern age only drives happiness and Śānti far away. We puff ourselves up, saying that science has advanced greatly, but this is folly. We may enjoy their conveniences to some extent, but this cannot grant the Śānti of the Ātma. Cars have come. Videos have come, cinemas have come, aeroplanes have come. But does peace of mind come from these? They may give some Ānanda, up to a point. They may provide conveniences, but the Śānti of the Ātma is not to be had from them. This science has no mind. The Ātma means nothing at all to them. It has no pure heart at all. Science is simply a thing with no pure mind. It is always research into matter. In this very research people waste their own sacred humanness. … through these material things man cannot attain the supreme divinity. He cultivates only such vices as envy, hatred and Ahaṅkāra.
So we must try, step by step, to put away such kāma, krodha and lobha. Man today longs to roam the world in freedom. What is freedom? Is it to roam as one pleases, or to live as one pleases? Is it to fall under the senses? The foolish man of today thinks that freedom means trying to enjoy the senses as he pleases. One ruled by the senses is only bound … and does not know freedom. Keeping the senses under his own control, … the truly free man. We must keep the senses under control. We must give no room to roaming at will. If a man is a slave to the senses and goes roaming at will, he is nothing but a blind man who cannot see what the senses really are. Truly, man today takes the One for the many, forgets his divinity and drowns in what is impure. Man must try to recognise the One in the many. Birds and beasts have eyes too. To call it a sacred human birth and still to look only with eyes of skin! Ants and mosquitoes have eyes. But one born a human being must see sacred sights with sacred eyes.