In plain words
If you keep speaking Satya, all that you say will come to pass. But you may ask, “Swami, even though we walk the path of Satya, untruth creeps in and troubles us. What is the reason for this?” Really, how does untruth come and creep in? It creeps in only because you give it room; otherwise it would not. When the sacred Gaṅgā flows, rainwater comes in streams here and there and mixes with it. But you must not let any other thing at all enter into Satya. Yet through the weakness of the senses you are giving kāma, krodha, lobha, moha, mada and mātsarya an opening. All these gather and make your mind impure. If even an atom of impurity gets into a pure drop of nectar, it becomes impure.
The mind itself is the moon beyond reach
A music director wrote, “I know you are the moon beyond reach, and yet somehow my heart tries to grasp you.” That moon beyond reach is not somewhere in the sky; the mind itself is the moon beyond reach. Because the clouds called kāma, krodha, lobha, moha, mada and mātsarya come in the way, the moon is hidden from view. You should not grieve, ‘Alas, I cannot see the moon!’ As soon as the clouds drift off, the moon comes into view. In the same way, for the clouds called the six inner enemies to move away, you must always remember the Name. Only then will you be able to see the moon clearly.
Today we are celebrating the festival of Śrī Rāma Navamī. What Śrī Rāmacandra chiefly taught was Satya and Dharma alone! You must not think of yourselves as ordinary human beings. You must believe, “I am Rāma.” Now and then you say, ‘Only my Ātmārāma knows.’ So our Ātma itself is Rāma. The Ātma has no form. The Ātma took on a physical form and came down as Rāma. In the same way, Dharma itself took on an outward form and came as Lakṣmaṇa.