In plain words
What was the reason? Hanumān told it right there. ‘Before Dharma I am humble; before arrogance I am bold,’ he said. In the same way, you are students: when your heart agrees that it is the proper path, that this is Dharma, when you hold that what our officers, our department or our ministers have done is Dharma, there you must stand humble before Dharma. When it is adharma, you must win through it with courage, but you must not set about merely spreading anarchy. Today, without inquiring what is Dharma and what is adharma, we start roaming about wildly like mad monkeys and in the end set about tormenting even innocent people. There is a small example of this. A student went to a hotel. He had two good masala dosas brought for him. He ate them. He is coming away without paying the hotel-man. Then the hotel keeper caught hold of him and said, ‘Give me my money.’ But, weighing whether the student did wrong or the hotel keeper did wrong: what the student did was wrong. If the other students, thinking, ‘This is a disgrace to us students ourselves,’ have such a spirit of sacrifice, such Prema for that student, then to pay for the two dosas from their own pockets and come away is Dharma. That is the right path; but you can judge for yourselves how very great an adharma it is when, because the hotel-man struck our student, all the students fall upon the hotel and set fire to it. This, setting about unholy acts while keeping the sacred Sarasvatī in the seat of the heart, is a great disgrace to education itself. So those who are students must develop Viveka, inquire, and set about settling it within what is just and unjust. Not otherwise: we must be seekers of learning, and must not be seekers of sense-objects. Today, if a hotel puts its prices up by even one naya paisa, a strike. If they put up the bus ticket, a strike. We must see that, by students joining in matters that have nothing to do with students, we are using our education in a most disgraceful way. If Hanumān himself, a monkey, behaved in that way, heeding the time and heeding the place, then how much more nobly, under this, must we who are human behave!