In plain words
When He was setting out with Viśvāmitra to guard the yāga, a woman called Tāṭaki crossed His path. Without hesitation and without mercy He killed that Tāṭaki. After Viśvāmitra's yāga had been guarded, while He was going to the city of Mithilā, Ahalyā, who had turned to stone, crossed His path. He gave her life, removed her faults through repentance, brought her back to her husband and went on. After He reached the city of Mithilā, Sītā crossed His path. Without any questioning He accepted her with grace. What is the inner meaning of this? Śrī Rāmacandramūrti is the one who, in childhood itself, while still a youth, gave the world this kind of sādhana as an example.
Tāṭaki, who first crossed Rāma's path, is tamoguṇa. He killed tamoguṇa. Then Ahalyā, who had turned to stone, is rajoguṇa. He taught rajoguṇa its lesson, restored her to her own place, and, as a protection, removed her fault and went on. He granted His grace to sāttvic Sītā. What God wishes for, what He asks for, what He blesses, is the sāttvic alone. It is this sāttvic that He longs for. It is this that He nourishes. As for one who is not so, in each person one quality or another goes on spreading. Tāṭaki is tamoguṇa. Ahalyā is rajoguṇa. Sītā is the sāttvic.
In man today it is the mixing of all three, tamas, rajas and sattva, that has grown. In human nature, Tāṭaki is none other than the tamoguṇa that is in us. First of all, Tāṭaki must be killed. What is tamoguṇa? To take Satya for the untrue, to believe adharma to be Dharma, to take the bad for the good: these are the natural marks of tamoguṇa. Though this world is impermanent, we believe it permanent, believe it Satya. It is this that is the chief tamoguṇa.
To be without the power of enquiry, to fall prey to attachment and hatred, and to move about as one pleases: that is rajoguṇa. Haste is the natural mark of rajoguṇa. In this haste we can fall into many kinds of trouble and loss. We are wasting time too. Through it we can fall into unrest. We must try to live without haste. We must carry out the enquiry into what is permanent and what is impermanent. Hence: Haste makes waste. waste makes worry so dont be in a hurry. In matters of God, however, we must make the fitting effort to attain it very calmly, steadily, purely and serenely.
Aśāntasya kutaḥ sukham. For one who has unrest there is no happiness at all. How is this Śānti to come to us? The root cause of unrest is discontent. Asantṛpto dvijo naṣṭaḥ.