In plain words
The senses have also been called paśus. Why were they called paśus? 'Paśyati iti paśuḥ' is the inner meaning. What has the outward sight is a paśu. What has the inward sight is Paśupati. Man must become Paśupati, not a paśu. You must be the master, not the slave. When you become a slave to the senses, you become a slave. You must be master of the senses. Man is truly the master. Yet man, who is such a master, is merely falling under the sway of the senses and living as a slave. There are many kinds of ways to keep these senses on the proper path. You must not try to hand them whatever they like. You must make a good enquiry into where the enjoyment of these senses springs from. These are born of sorrow itself. As their place of birth is, so too are their effects. That is why, though we think that what they give is, for the time being, enjoyments, good fortune and joys, this gives sorrow in full. These cravings are born in a moment. In a moment they subside. Their beginning and their end both take hold within a moment. Today the desire arose: I must eat a laḍḍu. The moment it arose, you ate two laḍḍus. By the time you had eaten two laḍḍus, you were sick of them. How long did the desire last? How long the loss of desire? How long the liking? How long the dislike? Within one single moment, liking and dislike both came and went. They are fleeting, are they not? So we must enquire into this in the proper way and give the senses fitting work. It is just because we give these senses no work that we have to become slaves in many ways. We must not take the cravings of the body to be real.
Even when I am not here, I keep taking note of everything each one says, each in his own way, about his own feelings. In the evening the Anantapur Principal, Hemalatha, delighted everyone's ears with the story of Prahlāda, in proper Telugu words, in padyams and in song. Now, in it she taught one thing in a striking way: Śiśupāla, Dantavaktra and the others were always reviling Kṛṣṇa, who is the Paramātma, and wounding Him with words not fit to be heard. Now, at one point an assembly was being held.