In plain words
‘Rather than have a mother who stands in the way of my pleasure and my freedom, better that she be gone,’ he too planned. One day, at the time she would come to serve the food, he kept a good iron cudgel close beside him. He made a plan to strike her hard on the head and kill her when his mother came to serve the food. That same day the mother too had the thought of mixing poison into this son's food and serving it. She brought the food with poison mixed in; he sat with the cudgel close beside him. As she bent down, he struck her with the cudgel and killed her. Within just a few minutes he ate the food mixed with poison and died. What did wealth do? The son by poison, the mother by the blow, gave up their lives. Is this the work wealth ought to do? It is not. So wealth fosters such evil thoughts and even sets about bringing on a state that drives away a mother's feeling and the tenderness for a son. So, not longing for wealth as the chief thing, but keeping Dharma alone as our aim, you who are young must strive to become worthy of God's grace. Wealth is needed, yes, but it is very necessary to keep only as much as our daily life needs and to use what is left for charity and good works. Today we see many instances among students too of going to ruin because they have too much money. Though at first it is very hard and a real torment, by keeping money in check they grow, in the future, into people of very good character. Today, when students ask their parents for money, if they need 10 rupees they set about telling their parents that they need 20 rupees. With that in mind, when children ask for 20 rupees, it is very necessary that mothers give only ten. At that time it is very hard for the son, but in the future he will be very happy. Today, because he is given twenty rupees, he uses ten rupees himself and, with the other ten, joins ten friends and goes off to the cinema or to a military hotel; misusing this money, he takes to bad habits.