In plain words
Here humanness keeps blossoming only in between the two. What are these two? One is tāraka, the other is māraka. Tāraka means the feeling "Nothing is mine." In whatever drama one acts whatever part, whatever words one speaks, all these are the director's intentions. To give up everything, saying "Nothing is mine," and to act one's part keeping in view only the story of that play, is true tāraka. Then what is the difference between tāraka and māraka? Between māraka and tāraka there is only one difference. Tāraka is to give up, saying "It is not mine," and to play one's part keeping in view the will of God, the root cause of that intention. But "Everything is mine; I am doing it. I am acting in this way. All this belongs to me": to act with such a sense of mine grown strong is māraka. A small example: in our college there is a principal. He is the one in charge of everything in this college: all the things, the materials, the machines in the laboratory, even the chairs in all the classrooms. He looks after all of them with very great care; but when he has retired from the post of principal he does not grieve at all on seeing them. What is the reason? "This is not mine. As long as I was here, to carry it out as my duty and look after it was my task": there is no room at all for any grief such as "I am retiring and going home, I am leaving all my rights behind, I am going away and leaving the machines in the laboratory." This is tāraka. The same principal, living in a rented house, packs up everything that is his and puts it in a lorry when, on retiring, he leaves that house and goes to his own home. He wraps up even his old sandals and throws them into the lorry. What is the reason? Out of the sense of mine, "These sandals are mine," he packs them and takes them with him. This is māraka. Though there are things in the college far more valuable than these, he does not grieve at all at the time of leaving them behind. Tāraka means to carry out one's duty and look after the things, and there is no sense of mine there at all.