In plain words
For everything there is the one principle called the Ātma. It is not a matter of saying, 'We are doing something, we are doing it.' Against obstinate folly no one at all can do anything.
By strength of arm one may kill great tigers, one may seize a snake firmly by the throat, one may drive away brahmarākṣasas by the crore, one may cure the diseases of men, one may swallow bitterness that the tongue does not like, one may subdue with a sharp sword, bearing the hurt, one may force a way into a great thicket of thorns, one may stop the mouths of the abusive; but on this earth, by teaching fools, no one, however clever, can turn them into good men. What else than this shall I make known, O students, honoured for your goodness and virtue!
So, while rāga and dvēṣa are the offspring of rajas and tamas, the sāttvic offspring too is very strong in us. It is the stronger. Only what is rich in the sattva guṇa is human quality; kāma, krōdha, lōbha, mada and mātsarya are the offspring of rajas and the tamoguṇa. All these are rākṣasa qualities. Prema, Satya, compassion, sacrifice, Ānanda: all these are the qualities of man. Today we give up such human qualities, take up only rākṣasa qualities, and so we hide humanness itself.
You are a man. Not a rākṣasa. You must inquire well in this way. I am man. I am man half right. I am not animal half right. We must inquire well, kṣuṇṇakṣaṇamu: 'I am man not animal'. Only then will you cultivate human qualities, and these rākṣasa qualities will not enter. animal qualities are better by far. The rākṣasa deeds are going still further beyond that, beyond all bounds. We must do harm to no one. That itself is the essence of the 18 Purāṇas in our history of Bhārata.