In plain words
We must … to the state of 'You are master, not slave'. Only when you control all these senses do you become master. If you … subject to the senses, you are a slave. The senses are our servants. We must keep these servants in our control … … must not pass into the servant's control.
One more small example, from the Rāmāyaṇa. Kaikeyī's servant was Mantharā. But as long as Kaikeyī kept to …, this servant had honour, and this queen Kaikeyī had honour. From the moment Kaikeyī, the master, listened to the words of Mantharā … and took the wrong path, from then on even Kaikeyī's name …. Today, whoever we may be, if it is a matter of following servants, in some things we follow… …, but in a sacred matter we must remain master all the same. There must be a limit. … the limit, there is danger. In our body the temperature must be 98.4°F. But if the temperature reaches 99°F, it is not good. That is when disease begins. In our body blood pressure 120/80 … normal. But if it goes to 90, heart problem begins. However much light our eyeball can …, only that much can it see. If we look at too much light, the retina in the eye burns. The drum … in our ear too can hear only so much sound. If its limit is crossed, the eardrum …. So the whole of man's life is just a limited company. If we cross this limit, we have to receive …. Everything has a boundary. People say, 'I want full freedom.' There must be … freedom. But only so far and no further. The end of wisdom is freedom. The end of culture is perfection. The end of knowledge is Love. All these we must go on keeping in right control, to some degree, in … itself.
Life is a long journey. In this long journey we must go on keeping our desires somewhat in check. In the Railway department you will have seen: Less … more comfort. Make travel a pleasure. On our long journey these desires … luggage. With too much luggage we have no comfort at all on the journey. So reducing … luggage is what the language of Vedānta called Vairāgya. Vairāgya does not mean leaving house and home, wife and children, everything, and going off to the forest. What they spoke of is Vairāgya about luggage. Desires … …. But those desires too, only so far and no further. Only when we live like this … achieve anything.