In plain words
In your heart there are animals, but God is not there. If you conduct yourself with Prema, with patience, with Śānti and with compassion, then God will be in you. If you want to show forth humanness, you must show forth sacred qualities. These Navarātri worships began for the sake of fostering such sacred qualities. As Durgā, Sarasvatī and Lakṣmī. All these are the very form of the three guṇas. The guṇas sattva, rajas and tamas. You must take these three guṇas as three forms. The sāttvic arises from the heart. Rajoguṇa comes from the throat. Tamoguṇa comes from the tongue. All that comes from the tongue is gas, gas. It does not come from your heart. What comes from the throat is rajoguṇa. Only what comes from the heart is Śānti, is full of Prema, is Satya. It must come calmly. That Śānti is the seat of the heart. When we think of ourselves as human beings, we must begin with words of Śānti. That very calm is sattvaguṇa.
Ayodhyā Means the Heart Itself
You all know Daśaratha. Who is Daśaratha? Daśaratha, the king of Ayodhyā? No, no. The 5 organs of action and the 5 organs of knowledge make ten. The body is the very chariot of these ten senses. Daśaratha. Daśaratha is none other than the ruler of these ten senses. This very body is a chariot. Daśaratha is the master of this chariot. He longed for three. They are none other than Kausalyā, Sumitrā and Kaikeyī. Three wives. These are none other than sattvaguṇa, rajoguṇa and tamoguṇa; through these three guṇas the four goals of life were born. Rāma, Lakṣmaṇa, Bharata and Śatrughna are what are called Dharma, artha, kāma and Mokṣa. Which is this Daśaratha's capital? That itself is Ayodhyā. Ayodhyā means the place warriors cannot reach. This very place is the heart. No one can reach into the heart. No hater can get inside; no wicked person either can enter. This Ayodhyā is the place no one can reach. That alone is the true capital. That alone is the capital of our life. The saṅga in the aṅga, the liṅga in the saṅga, the jaṅgama in the liṅga.