Passage 4

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In plain words

Our wealth is nothing unsteady, impermanent or Asatya. Good character alone is our true wealth. Good conduct alone is true riches; Brahmajñāna alone is our prosperity. We must make the effort to guard these three. Holding these three things with care in all three times, keeping them as your aim, not letting this money, gold, goods and vehicles go astray onto the wrong path, you must set about shaping them, on the right path, into an example for the country.

Students, embodiments of the divine Ātma! I hope that you will bring a fine good name to the parents who bore you, to the Motherland and to our culture. This is Bhārata. This land is a land that delights in God. Only when we set about developing that delight in God may we indeed have the courage to say we are Bhāratīyas; without that delight in God, to say of yourself, ‘I am a Bhāratīya,’ is nothing short of shameful, you could say. I have told you the principle of Bhārata many times. Bhā-ra-ta. Bhārata is bhāva, rāga and tāla blended together. These, bhāva, rāga and tāla, are icchā-śakti, kriyā-śakti and Jñāna-śakti, and we should regard our body as the bed in which all three grow. These three must move only in step, each following the other; if one goes off one way and another another way, the result is a discord that is not even pleasant to hear and stirs up a kind of disgust. Icchā-śakti and kriyā-śakti must stay bound to Jñāna-śakti. You must take that as your aim. We must not give the least room to our feelings that drift in like clouds on the wind. Weigh it well: is it good or bad, a help or a harm? If it has come from the seat of your heart, examine it to some extent with Jñāna and try, to some extent, to express it in action. We must not fall prey in the least to these passing surges of passion. We must gain the strength to curb the passions that well up at this tender age. If we cannot subdue our excitements at this very time, when our physical, mental and spiritual strength is at its fullest, how could we ever subdue them in old age?