In plain words
Embodiments of Prema! Some bad thoughts may come to you. If a bad thought comes, do not look its way. Develop good thoughts. Then the bad thoughts will fall back. You must take in the good and cast off the bad. If you do this sādhana, you can grow as rich in good qualities as you wish. Only when he has driven away kāma, krodha, lobha, moha, mada and mātsarya can man grow into a great soul. One who has boundless desires is not truly a man at all. Only one who has the one single desire, the desire for God, is a man. ‘Jantūnāṃ narajanma durlabhaṃ’, it has been said. Having gained such a rare human birth, man today behaves worse than a beast.
The delusion of ‘mine’ is the root of all sorrow
Above all, you must rein in your thoughts. You must not let them run as they please. No bad feeling such as envy or anger should arise towards anyone. Only when you subdue the six inner enemies can you live as true human beings. Marry, and support your family. There is nothing wrong in that. But give up the feeling of difference, ‘These are mine, those are strangers.’ The delusion of ‘mine’ is the root of all sorrow. In the word ‘manasu’, take away the ‘ma’ (Māyā) and the ‘na’ (that is), and keep the ‘su’. ‘Su’ means sugandha and supriya, sweet fragrance and what is most dear. God is happiness itself, fragrance itself, the One most dear. So take into yourselves the ‘su’ (purity). Only then will you become true human beings. You were born as human beings and are called human beings; what use is it if you spend your life in the delusion of ‘mine’? All that you think of as ‘mine’ is only Māyā. ‘Mine’ destroys everything. ‘Su’ brings happiness and good fortune. However many degrees you earn, however much wealth you have, however much strength, without purity it is all a waste. Whatever you study, however much wealth you earn, in the end nothing goes with you. “Whether you are in the forests or in the sky, in a town or in a village, on a hill or fallen in the middle of the river...