Passage 8

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In plain words

If, while they are suffering in ill health, you neglect to nurse them, then however many people you help outside, all of it turns into nothing but harm. If you honour them and make them happy, Swami's grace will surely go with you as your companion and guard you as the eyelid guards the eye. Begin at home the effort to make your lives holy and the sādhanas that make them worthwhile; after that, set about going outside.

Without wasting time, without misusing the body, set your feet to the doing of karma. Giving no room to Ahaṅkāra, lack of faith or dishonesty, not hankering after a showy life, growing in the feeling of fellowship with one another, achieve your own uplift, the progress of the country and the welfare of the world.