In plain words
What is the cause of these changes? For this, the guṇas in nature are the cause; when the three guṇas, …, rajas and tamas, are together as one, there is no trouble at all. In any case, when … happens, more or less, many changes keep coming. These changes too keep … as contrary changes. There are seven colours in the sun. When these seven colours are together as one, we see a pure, … white. When there is some difference in this, it appears as different …. So when these three guṇas are together as one in man, there is no …. He stays peaceful. What is the reason that today, one minute joyful, another … sorrowful, another minute cheerful, another minute grieving, he goes through changes in this …. One time anger comes. Another time calm … one time sorrow comes. One time grief comes. Another time Ānanda comes … What is the reason for all …? When one inquires so, the guṇas within oneself are themselves the … cause of this grief. When each guṇa in turn rises up at one time or another, all the guṇas … in this way. When the sattva guṇa grows, he goes through his life calmly, patiently, with sympathy, with …, gently. What is this sāttvika guṇa like? Step …, in a state not moved by any wind or by any ups and downs, steady in oneness, …, it is like a flame. When the rajo guṇa rises up, it is like a … that sways this way and that in the wind, never steady but restless. Not only that. It is … with smoke too. Joined with this smoke, it goes on flickering restlessly, never knowing when it will go out, when it will … its end. And when the tamo guṇa rises up, the very form of the lamp … is not seen. It is filled wholly with smoke. It loses all its light … and enters a path contrary to everything. In that state truth takes the form of Asatya, and Asatya of truth …. It sinks into the sorry state of being unable to tell what is truth and what is Asatya. … how are our feelings and our resolves? Are they doubtful …? Are they pure? Are they steady? Or are they in a state of confusion, nothing of the kind …? If we inquire into it for ourselves, 'Bho! I am in tamo guṇa. Dī, I am … in rajo guṇa,' one can decide it for oneself. One who is in the sattva guṇa does not … anyone's faults. If there are faults in himself, he searches them out and puts them away. But one who is in rajo … is always searching for the faults of others.