In plain words
So we must keep our sight, our laughter and our tongue under control. Only when we first cultivate a discipline of this kind will what we have learned, or what we have heard, come to bear fruit. Besides this, when elders and noble people are giving their teachings, we must set ourselves to listen with respect and with good feeling. Every kind of fruit that comes to us answers to the restraint with which we listen to it. Before Kṛṣṇa taught Arjuna the Bhagavad Gītā, He told him, ‘Listen with one-pointed citta.’ It was only by listening with such one-pointed citta that Arjuna was granted the vision of the Viśvavirāṭ svarūpa. We should listen without moving our body, or any limb among our limbs, this way or that. Instead, many sit right in the front. Even when they sit, they sit in an ungainly way. Those are not the marks of people who are listening. They are the marks of idlers. Those who sit in front like that and do not know how to sit properly should sit right at the back, by the drainage pipes, if there are any; but for such people to come and sit in front in a most ungainly way is not right for students. It is shameful. Every single thing, the way we sit, the way we look, the way we study, every single thing, we must show to others as an example. Yet many elders sit in front, waiting to see what good fortune these students who have joined the summer course have. At such a time, if those sitting in front sit in some ungainly way, then ‘What is this? These children are sitting so carelessly! What is this, how did they ever select these children?’: that is a great disgrace for our selection committee too. So, above all, what matters to us is discipline. We have no joy at all in your taking degrees, M.A.s and B.A.s, that weigh down the head. What, take these degrees and then go off to jobs to fill the belly? As for this thing called a job, being a watch man is a job too. Even a sweeper's work, they call a job. Are things like these what we need? There must be discipline. We must win more and more respect from our elders. From such people we must win a fine and honourable name. That is the fame worthy of our being human. Jayadeva, Gaurāṅga, Rāmakṛṣṇa Paramahaṃsa, Tukārām: what degrees did all these take? What university did they go to? What titles did they receive?