In plain words
Soham. This is the Haṃsa Gāyatrī. You yourself are a haṃsa. When you recognise your own true principle, then you are a Paramahaṃsa. Many maharṣis are called Saccidānanda Paramahaṃsa. The nature that separates the Ātma from the non-Ātma is the mark of a Paramahaṃsa. It puts away the feeling of the body, which is the non-Ātma, and holds to the feeling of the Ātma. This is the quality of the haṃsa. To part the field from the knower of the field is the quality of the haṃsa.
We must try to lessen the principle of Prakṛti little by little, to some extent. It is not possible to give up Prakṛti. Prakṛti is the Paramātma in the form of the effect. The Paramātma is in the form of the cause. This world is the very form of the cause. Its very name is jagat. Ja-gat. Coming and going: that is jagat; all of it is coming and going; nothing stays for ever. Nothing goes for ever. What has gone comes back again. What has come goes away again. This they called mithyā. They have spoken of it as sat-asat. This is what they called jagat. Through many words we experience this world. Giving up the world is not possible; you must see the Lord of the world in the world. The world is the form of Consciousness. Consciousness itself is the form of God. Everything is bound up with Consciousness. In it there are some things to be thrown away and some to be taken. You go to the market. You pay money and buy an orange. You must take off the peel, take out the seeds and drink the juice. Will you eat the peel too because you bought it? Will you eat the seeds too because you paid money? It was bought with money, true, but some of it must be thrown away and some taken. The body is yours. The body is a fruit. In it there are some things for you to enjoy and some to throw away. Bad feelings, bad qualities, bad thoughts: all these you must throw away. These are like your seeds. Keep the seeds by you and they become plants. What is to be enjoyed? What is sweet. Sweet speech. Sweet sight. Sweet hearing. All that is sweet you must take. If you chew the peel and the seeds because you bought the fruit, the taste on your tongue is spoiled. What is the reason we spoil things for ourselves? Bad thoughts alone. Whenever bad thoughts begin, "Chī! These are not what should come to a man. I am not animal." So saying, you must try to drive them away. Attachment and hatred, envy and show: all these are animal qualities. "Satya, Dharma and Ahiṃsā are my qualities": so you must feel.
You must think, "Patience and kindness are my quality." Man must try to live by this very feeling of compassion. That was Śrī Rāma's first quality. That is what has kept making the story of Rāma sacred.