In plain words
We should keep them only as far as they go. But when they pass the limit, the mind goes astray. It leads into danger. We must lessen our desires as far as possible, keep them a little within bounds, and set about living our life.
To give up wicked feeling within one's feelings: that is tyāga, that itself is yoga; not leaving property and home and going off to the forest.
So it was said. So we must give up the wicked feelings within us. Only then will you take shape as a complete human being. In whatever measure our feelings stand, in that measure holy grace comes to us. A student said:
Whether you dip it in a little pond, or fill it from any number of oceans, friend, as big as the pot, so much the water.
We are fit to receive only as much water as our vessel holds.
Whether you put on the ochre robe, or wear a necklace of beads, or turn the japa beads round and round, in the end, only so much and no more; whether you go off to the deep forests, or perform the hardest tapas, at the last, just so much and no more.
… today we must make our heart wide. Heart does not mean the physical heart. If the physical heart grows large, it is ready for an operation. Not the physical heart: the spiritual heart. What does it mean? All are children of God; all are forms of man; all are of human shape. All are one human race. To grow this wide feeling in ourselves is what is great. … one's nature: 'my own strength, my own self-testing'; this we must first of all try to recognise. We must keep taking examples like this: 'As much as I suffer when some troubles come to me, so much will the other person suffer when the same troubles come to him.' So first of all we must make a self examination.