In plain words
Not craving authority, carrying out his duty, he walks the path of Satya so as to keep his humanness. He lives among his fellow men with Prema, respects them, welcomes guests and those who come to his door, and shows his Dharma as a householder to be humanness. Ever fearing sin and loving God, he lives morally in society. One with such qualities they called ‘Satyadharmaparo martyaḥ’. Next, how is the demon in men? ‘Madyapāneraso rākṣasaḥ’: that is, sunk in the drink of the vāsanās of sense objects, a slave to the senses, forgetting all shame and modesty, taking no account of honour and decency, he forgets that there is such a thing as society and lives by Ahaṅkāra alone. Swelling his attachment and hatred, harming his fellow men, finding fault with the good, taking no account of the faults in himself, he is always searching out only the faults of others: this is the one with the demonic quality. Hiding his own faults, he makes even a small fault of others into a big one and goes about proclaiming it. Pride and possessiveness are his very life. Ahaṅkāra is his life-breath. Worldly life is his backbone. It is just such a feeling, bound up with selfishness and self-interest, that the śāstra has shown to be the demonic nature. Then what is the beast nature? ‘Jñānena śūnyaḥ paśubhissamānaḥ’: that is, without knowledge of the world, he thinks the life of the senses is his true life, he yearns for the pleasures and riches of the senses, from birth to death he hopes only for the joys of the senses, and he lives taking the belly for Kailāsa, money for his iron safe, and worldly joy for Kaivalya. In life, from his birth to his death, he brings his life to its end in the pleasures of the senses alone. He has no memory that there is a divine principle beyond the senses. Man, who ought to attain the demonic from the beast nature, the human from the demonic and the divine from the human, is today sliding down from the divine to the human, from the human to the demonic, and from the demonic to the beast. Even if it is not man's divinity, we must make the effort it takes to achieve man's humanness.