In plain words
The man without learning they called ‘nirakṣara’. The man who had gained learning they called ‘sākṣara’. Who is the one called ‘sākṣara’? The one who has controlled his senses is a sākṣara. The control of the senses is what is called ‘dama’. So the one who has achieved dama becomes a sākṣara.
Under the sway of the Kali age, the educated of today do not know what control of the senses is. In these modern studies there is no control of the senses, and they roam about as they please. For this reason dama turns into ‘mada’. Mada means simply being like an elephant in rut. It is living life caring for nothing, not caring even for death, not caring even for one's life! When this dama turns into mada, ‘sākṣara’ also turns into ‘rākṣasa’. As a result man, having lost dama, behaves like a demon. Sacred qualities such as kindness, Prema, patience and sympathy are not seen in him at all. Because man today has fallen prey to desires, he has become their slave and is forgetting humanness itself.
Today the head is not put to use for the progress of society
God created a great mountain, Meru. A certain person went to see Brahmā and asked him what the inner meaning of this Mount Meru was. Then Brahmā: ‘My son! Do you know the Rāmāyaṇa?’ he asked, it is said! In the Rāmāyaṇa there is a strange being. His head is on his belly. His name is ‘Kabandha’. What does Kabandha mean? He has a head. But it is not on his shoulders. It is on his belly. That is, ‘the belly is his Kailāsa.’ However much one studies, whatever offices one takes up, however high one rises, all the learning one has gained is only ever for filling the stomach! Today people use the head for the stomach, but they do not use it for the progress of Prakṛti or for raising society to a higher level.