In plain words
But the man of today enters into karma intent on the fruit alone, on what reward will come to him from society. But that is not what man should seek. We must set the citta right with the noble feeling of what help, what aid, what good is coming from me to this society. Wanting fails to give this noble feeling the spur it needs. That is why so many kinds of faults lodge themselves inside the karmas we must do. It is with this in view that they said kāmaṃ karmanāśanam.
Anger. This anger turns a man into a madman. This anger has an overpowering force. So we must sacrifice this first of all.
The third is greed. However much a man earns, however much power he has, greed cannot bear sacrifice at all. It is ready only to take from others, but greed will not come anywhere near giving to others. 'If you come to my house, what will you bring? If I come to yours, what will you give?' says this greed. So: if I come to your house it must be my gain, and if you come to our house it must be my gain too. Such is this greed, full of avarice and wicked craving. We must sacrifice the greed that breeds such vices. This very thing they called Vairāgya. What is Vairāgya? Vairāgya is precisely what is opposed to rāga. This attachment to the body is not wrong. Attachment to kinsmen, this too is no fault. Attachment to family, this too is no fault. Mother and father must indeed be loved; brothers and sisters must indeed be held dear. You must indeed wish for your body to be healthy. This rāga must have a limit, to a degree. It must have a measure. We often hear it in music. This rāga is certainly needed for a song. But if one draws out a rāga beyond measure, the listener falls ill. He drew out a rāga as big as a hill, and uttered a word the size of a fingernail, so they say. So a song should have as much rāga as it needs. Cooking should have as much fire as it needs. Dal should have the salt it needs. If you put in as much salt as there is dal, it cannot be eaten. In just the same way our rāga too should be only as much as is right. Today this rāga is going beyond all measure. Whether it is attachment to his body, or to his kinsmen, or to his family, or to his learning, or to his knowledge, all these attachments are travelling past a limit, past a measure. That is why we must keep this rāga under control. But in our humanness, even what we must seek should stay within some limits. Na śreyo niyamaṃ vinā: this turns into wicked craving. This wicked craving becomes the cause of sorrow. So only when we bring rāga within some measure does it turn into what is called Vairāgya.