Passage 3

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In plain words

Duryodhana, Duḥśāsana and their like are the very examples of this. Utterly heedless of the strength of Dharma or the strength of the heart, he leaned only on the strength of wealth and the strength of numbers and began a war on the Pāṇḍavas, the embodiments of Dharma; and for the plight they fell into afterwards, the cause came to be seen as nothing but the wretched weakness that brought utter ruin on his very own line. You know well how, when Arjuna and Duryodhana both went to Kṛṣṇa, and Duryodhana asked for the army alone, Arjuna prayed, “You alone are enough for us.” In the whole universe we find no strength that surpasses the strength of God. When the strength of the Paramātma, who holds the whole universe in His belly, stands by us as our support and shield, all other powers, abilities and strengths are things that perish in a moment. Holding to our Bhāratīya culture, relying on its sacred histories and winning victory in every quarter from time without beginning, how they shaped this into such a land of Dharma, how they won it fame as such a land of sacrifice, how they gave it its fitting name of such a land of karma: all this, over this month, the elders, experienced scholars, sādhakas, men of wisdom and men of learning, have gladly passed on to you along many paths. But I need not tell you more. For a month now you have been storing these sacred gems in the seat of your hearts. I trust that you will not turn this into nothing more than soot and charcoal, but will use it all your lives, on the noblest path of practice, for its rightful worth alone. In the world today it is the common way to think that money, gold, goods, vehicles and the like, or buildings, just these things gathered up in many forms, are wealth, riches and prosperity. But all such money, gold, goods and vehicles, buildings and jewels too, may be connected with you only as long as the body lasts; after the body, there is no bond of any kind between these things and their owners.