In plain words
Only when a person troubles no one, burdens no one, does his own work himself, keeps to the path without letting go of his own principle, his own distinctive truth, and, becoming a guide to others, makes all this his habit, can we recognise him as a person of worth. So at this age we must stand as an example, and never sink to the state of having to be told by others. So, to lead our humanness into sacred divinity, students who are young like you must first of all make a firm resolve and set about the effort to curb, to some extent, their kāma, their krodha and their swaggering; only then can one become worthy of education. Going to places of learning for the sake of education. But to forget the very thing we came to these places of learning for: this only shows that students, without understanding it rightly, are striving after a fashion to gain this education. Many go to places of learning, forget all about learning, waste their time in talk about worldly things, and when the examinations come round they try to open a brand-new book.
Students, embodiments of Prema! This age is a golden age. A most sacred age. Should you want to catch hold of this age again, to keep it, it will not be caught, it will not be kept. This time we have caught, these days we have been given: we must set about the right effort to make them sacred in some measure. Before setting about it, we must restrain the senses. Only when we have restrained the senses do the courage and daring to master every vidyā, and the keen intelligence it calls for, grow in us.
Into a head with nothing in it you can fill anything; can a head crammed with all sorts of things be filled? Will the skull of a head full of the lessons of Kali ever become empty? Unless that skull is emptied, can good deeds be filled into it on this earth?