In plain words
So from today you must keep this discipline. Near the hostel where the girls stay, people keep talking very loudly. After the meal there is no need to stay on here. Many sitting under the trees, staying on until late in the night: habits like these are very bad. So I hope too that from today you will check such bad habits and enter into good habits. In the morning, at the time of the yoga practice, Indra Devi brought some books. When those books were being given out, the way you went and crowded in, not even monkeys crowd in like that. To break discipline like that for the sake of snatching books, for the sake of getting the books handed to you, is very shameful. Westerners must not think, ‘What is this, these Indians are showing discipline of this kind!’ They may not say it to your face, but in their hearts they may think that even those who attend our classes, even those who are in our discipline, behave like this. Before you leave, I will give darśan to every single one of you, give each a namaskāram, and send you away content. But this way, in your eagerness, not keeping that calm, when you come for meals, when you come for tiffin, when you come for tea, handing up packets of vibhūti, handing up pictures: this is purely a bad habit. Before you go, come to Swami and have everything touched, have it signed, have prasādam given to you, and you may leave in good order. That chance I will surely give you. Making a show of that kind at a time that is not the time: even villagers do not behave like that. When educated people too behave in this way, it looks as though education has no value at all. Keeping the occasion in view, you must bring your conduct, to some degree, into order. Now, a small example. People go to a hotel. There is a reason to go to a hotel and ask, ‘Is there idli? Is there dosa?’ If someone goes to a hotel and asks, ‘My man, do you have Saridon? Do you have Aspro?’, they will think, ‘What's with this fellow? Didn't he see the hotel's name? A man short of sense.’