In plain words
Because these fires of lust, anger and hatred keep blazing in his heart, he suffers so much fear and unrest. All the lasting means of living in Śānti are there, are they not! Why should one not experience Śānti? This is not what worldly happiness and Śānti rest on. Pure feelings alone are the root cause of Śānti. One who has no hatred is always in Śānti. Fear begins only for one who has done wrong. The moment fear enters, unrest arises. Only when you keep from doing wrong does a certain Śānti come. Only when you are free of wrong will you be free of fear and dread. What must we do so that wrongs do not come? What should we follow? People imagine that man lacks the power and capacity to decide what is wrong and what is good. Of all the living beings in the world, man alone has more of the power to decide, “Is this wrong or not?” Even knowing it, he falls into wrong. Even knowing them to be wrongs, he follows that very thing. That is why unrest and fear arise. If people truly did not know what wrong is, there could be no unrest or fear for them. Some people are mad. They have no discrimination power. They cannot decide, “This is good, this is bad.” Whatever he does, he has no fear. What is the reason? Since they have no discrimination power, whatever they do is no fault. There is no fear. Only those in whom this discrimination, this power of enquiry, is found have fear and unrest. We must set this power of enquiry on the good path. When your conscience tells you, to your own inner contentment, that you are right, follow it. Even when your conscience says no, you follow it. That is why you suffer fear and unrest.
Students! This is the very root cause of so many doing wrong, and finding unrest, and finding fear. When you want to drive this fear away: all karma is for the pleasing of God; all of it is God's alone. You must at least hold fast to the feeling, “My body is God's; everything is God's.” Just as there is fire in each piece of firewood, the body too is a piece of firewood, so there is fire in it as well. We must put this fire to use in the right way. Though fire is one, one is a bad fire and another a good fire. In the burning-ground they burn a body; there too it is fire. Because there is fire there, do we sit making dosas and idlis on it? We regard that fire as a bad fire.