In plain words
On the tip of the tongue dwells Lakṣmī; on the tip of the tongue, friends and kin; on the tip of the tongue, honour is won; on the tip of the tongue, death is certain.
Embodiments of Prema!
All the riches that come to man come through speech itself. The … man gains, and his kinship too, come to him through speech itself. Man's bonds arise through speech itself. In the end, death comes about through speech itself. In human life speech is of very great importance. It is like the life-breath. When man keeps his speech pure, he becomes holy. At … time, speech must be used with the very greatest care. Such holy speech is gained through satsaṅga alone.
Without good qualities, without good thoughts, can the mind stay fixed in Jñāna? If there are no bricks and lime for building a house, how can the house be built?
Not human life alone: all living beings too are covered over by the six inner enemies. Of these …, the very first are desire and anger. Although man has the two words desire and anger, … the second word is only the outcome of the first. Greed, delusion, pride and envy too are only the outcome of the first word. The six inner enemies are the outcome of desire. The … of desire is the root cause of the form and nature of all these. Through desire, longing grows. This longing takes shape as a longing for the objects of the senses. When this very longing does not bear fruit, that is, when it is foiled, it turns into anger. This very anger turns into delusion. This very delusion, growing and growing, at last brings about smṛti bhraṣṭani. Through the hardship of this smṛti bhraṣṭana, the Buddhi wastes away. Through … the ruin of the Buddhi, everything is ruined. For all sorrows, all ruin, all ill fame, … desire itself is the root cause. Keeping sarvāmbhalanu under due control, we must try to live in the right way. Today I do not wish to speak of the Navarātri, nor of the Śivarātri.