In plain words
So we must let into ourselves the holy feelings that turn humanity into divinity. We keep the evil of others, the faults of others and the harm done by others always before our eyes and try to revile them, but no man tries to search out what our faults are, what our wrongs are, what evil there is in us. Instead of brooding over the hundred mistakes in others, if we recognise the one mistake in ourselves, one becomes very holy. Even in a garden full of fragrant flowers and sweet fruits, the pig goes in and looks only for filth, but it never sets about enjoying …. In the same way, a man of distinguished qualities sets about looking only for faults even in the heart of the purest person. He never sets about taking in the good and holy feelings that are in that person. So only when we root out faults of this kind within our humanity do we take shape as true human beings. If man is to raise himself as man, if a human being is to live as a human being, we must bear many sufferings, hardships, reproaches and sorrows too.
Only when one bears all these, pushes through them and moves forward does human life become blessed. Without hardships, sufferings, censure and reproach, man cannot in any way show forth an ideal. Bad things are like a shadow to good ones. Right under the rose that gives sweet fragrance the thorns cling. In just the same way, bad goes with good as its pair. It keeps coming close behind. So, paying no heed to this, we must go on living our lives with good feelings, so as to fulfil our ideal and our aim. If we wish to achieve so holy a life, first of all faith in God must take firm root. However many activities a man without this faith may carry out, they are not counted as acts of help. He himself can never be good. This world is a supremely wonderful art. But how are we enjoying this art? We … the truth of where this art was born and where it came from. But spirituality teaches the truth that all this art comes from the heart. So it teaches too that the principle of the Ātma is itself the power behind these arts. That is why this Vedānta says, 'Reflection of Inner being.' That is, the feeling of the good man shows forth only good. The feeling of the bad man takes shape as nothing but bad. So for both of these it is the power of the mind alone, and the fault of no substance whatever ….