In plain words
In the same way, if we keep our desires under control, there will be no mind at all.
Many of you, all you people from Madras, know this. The railways put it up. Less luggage more comfort make travel a pleasure. These desires are heavy, burdensome luggage. So we must reduce our desires to a great extent. We enter into desires beyond all limits and ruin our reason. We must be content with as much as is our due. One who has no contentment has no Śānti. One who has no Śānti has no happiness. That is why they said: “Asantṛpti dvijo naṣṭaḥ.” From discontent there come two losses. One is unrest, one is discontent. So we must live in contentment.
For this, man lives with three kinds of will. One is svecchā. The second is parecchā. The third is anicchā. What is the inner sense of these three? Svecchā: roaming the bazaars as we please, doing things as we please, quarrelling with others with a kind of muscle-power and boldness because nobody has any right to say anything to us: this is not svecchā. When we have resolved on a task with our whole heart and achieved it, we must ourselves, with our whole heart, bear the joys and sorrows that come from that task. This is svecchā. As much freedom as we have in doing a task, with that same freedom we must also bear the joys and sorrows that are the fruit of the task. Parecchā: we enter into some action under the pressure or the encouragement of others, and then, for the joys and sorrows that follow, we blame others: “Alas, it is because I followed them that I have come to this state.” That is parecchā. The third is anicchā. Without desiring anything oneself, without following others' pressure in the least, one bears the joys and sorrows that come by the will of God: this is anicchā.