In plain words
They say they are mere human beings. Truly, mere human beings should not make mistakes at all. If, knowingly or unknowingly, one makes a mistake, the same mistake must not come a second time. So to think, ‘We are mere human beings; making mistakes is natural to us,’ is a very weak thought. Weak thoughts of that kind should not arise in man at all. ‘I am not a weakling. I am not a beast. I am not a rākṣasa. I am a man’: this is the firm faith one must develop. I am man, not animal. If one enquires into this properly, one cannot think of a fault as natural at all. ‘I am nara.’ What does nara mean? You are the very embodiment of the Ātma! No fault can touch this Ātma in the least. It is only because attachment to the body arises that these evil intentions, bad thoughts and wicked thinking enter us. Only the person who follows the senses falls prey to a feeling like this. To follow the senses is the mark of the animal; to follow the Ātma is the mark of man. So you must not try to justify weaknesses like these. Do not think that this is a quality natural to humanness. Believe, ‘This is my own weakness of mind.’
When there is devotion to God and faith, the senses can do nothing to us
You must strive constantly for control of the senses. When you truly have control of the senses, a power without equal will arise in you. There is a little story about this. Once, at a place on the border between another country and ours, they set up guards and watches of various kinds so that foreigners would not enter our country. Even then many foreigners kept getting in. Then an officer, together with some soldiers, pitched a camp in between to catch them. What was the inner meaning of pitching this camp?