In plain words
For two or three weeks now you have been spending your time here in our Bṛndāvan, in sacred teachings. But for all the sacred teachings you are listening to, for all the divine experiences you are listening to, your conduct does not show anything to match what you have listened to. All these kinds of teachings, all these kinds of opportunities placed before you, are specially for one purpose: that you develop a discipline in yourselves. But in this matter of discipline, we are not getting the satisfaction we had hoped for. And on top of that, these girls are spoiling the discipline even more. Whenever Swami comes, whenever He goes, they come crowding in like sheep. With discipline of this kind, however many days of summer classes we hold for you, nothing at all comes of them. So first of all, whether you are in the classes or wherever you go, you must show our discipline to others as a discipline that draws them. Too much talk is very bad. If there is something you need to say among yourselves, you should speak a word or two; but by wasting time in needless talk the whole twenty-four hours, you are spoiling your energy. Besides this, the laughing too is becoming excessive. For women, laughter turns out to be ruin in four ways. Draupadī too, through laughter itself, fell into plights she should never have fallen into, and had to suffer reproaches she should never have suffered and humiliations she should never have suffered. To laugh at every single thing, that is, at what calls for it and at what does not, is purely what madmen alone do. For men or for women, this laughing is a very bad thing. When there is a reason, when someone does something funny, when someone makes a joke, you may laugh; but laughing in a place where women and men are present is purely what loose people alone do. It causes misunderstandings of certain kinds. So our students must keep a careful watch over such ways of behaving. Then again, you are not keeping your looks under control either. Men looking when women come by, women looking when men come by: this is merely a crow's look and nothing more, not the looks of human beings.