In plain words
All in all, ākāśa has two children. The child of the rajo guṇa is speech. The child of the sattva guṇa is the ear. Ākāśa's first child is the ear. The second child is speech. The first child, the ear, takes what is outside in. The second child, speech, lets out what has been taken in. The child of the air of the sattva guṇa is the skin. The child of the air of the rajo guṇa is the hand. If an ant crawls anywhere on the body, the skin knows the touch; the moment the skin knows it, the hand pushes it off and throws it away. All in all: the aspects of the sattva guṇa take in, and the offspring of the rajo guṇa cast it out. So in the world today the way of it is this: the rajo guṇa takes in, and the sattva guṇa keeps letting go. This is what they call ulṭā-sidā. It goes on running the opposite way. The secret of creation, its true form, is this: we must take in the sattva guṇa alone. We must cast out the principle of the rajo guṇa. So for this Prakṛti the sattva guṇa is the very first step.
This Prakṛti has a name, strī. Strī means that which is made of the letters sa, ta and ra. That is, first of all we must take in the sāttvic. The second, the letter ta, is the tamo guṇa; that is, we must develop the qualities of being courteous, humble and modest. The letter ra comes at the very last. At certain times it takes on certain vows, certain pledges, certain harsh measures. So the rajo guṇa is to be taken up at the very last, when there is no other way, and not at the start. In the secret of Prakṛti, what begins first of all is the letter sa. That is the sāttvic. So every man must develop his humanness in the aspect of the sattva guṇa, in the working of the sattva guṇa, in the radiance of the sattva guṇa, in the path of the sattva guṇa, in the conduct of the sattva guṇa.
Next, how is the creation of the tamo guṇa? It is a mixture of the five elements. Here the five elements are complete elements. They have not been mixed. The pañcīkṛtas have joined in here. That is, these are not things everyone can readily understand. So, to make it understood, I shall give a comparison from the things of the world. Here ākāśa, air, fire, water and earth, these five, are individual forms. These five came together in one place. Each of them has one rupee. This one called Ākāśa changed his rupee into small change. Keeping half a rupee with himself, he handed out two annas each to four others.