In plain words
With no illusion that they are the body, with no trace of delusion, devoted to sacrifice, the finest of yogīs: such were the gurus of old, and the gurus of today are just the same; this is the path of Satya, the word of Sai.
Brahmā creates the whole universe; Viṣṇu tends it and makes it grow; Paramaśiva cuts down the sinful beings; the guru, one alone, does all three works.
Students! Lovers of learning! Teachers!
Of all callings, the teacher's calling carries the greatest responsibility and is the most holy. If the teacher does not follow the path of Satya, the students go to ruin. Through that, society goes to ruin. Since the life and the future of the students lie in the hands of the gurus, the gurus must recognise how holy that is, recognise their responsibility, and set out to give the students joy by being an example in practice. Children's minds are pure and spotless. Since your teachings press deep into their tender minds, it is vital that teachers hold to good habits and a high ideal. Children notice good or bad with ease. They try to follow it. So, by having good habits themselves, the gurus can shape them in the good way. In turn, the influence of these students itself flows back upon the gurus, as in ‘It is the very learning You taught, O lotus-eyed One.’ There comes a time when the gurus are refined by the student himself. Students do not have the strength and the ability to shape themselves. Parents and gurus must labour to refine them. Whatever we spread before them and teach them, in the hearts of students whose minds are tender, pure and unselfish, just those thoughts arise. Here is a small example. Once, when he was young, a boy went to a play with his mother's help. It was a play of devotion to the mother (Śravaṇa). No sooner had he seen that scene than devotion to his father awoke in him. He resolved: ‘I must dedicate my life to devotion to my father.’ Another time he went with his mother to the play Hariścandra. That scene pressed deep into his heart, and he resolved to dedicate his life to Satya. He spent his whole life in just that way. He was none other than Mohandas Karamchand. Because he set his life on those two holy paths, he carried it along with ease and joy, like a bird with two wings, like a chariot with two wheels, and became Mahātmā Gandhi.
Unfortunately, today in our Bhārata there are no such holy opportunities, and so the young are taking the wrong road. So the gurus must not only teach lessons but strive to set the children's minds firm on the paths of the spirit, of morals and of Dharma. They must teach them the lives of great souls. Children's minds are like tender creepers. You must make them twine along the right way and make their lives bloom in splendour. You must prune the bad feelings, the twigs and branches that have taken the wrong way, and set them right. In his teaching, the guru must hand on to them well both practice and precept, out of his own experience. Every sentence the gurus tell the children, they must prove in practice. In truth, the foundation is practice itself, more than preaching and instruction. Once a guru turned up who would have led Gandhi astray. Gandhi did not go astray; he spoke Satya, practised it, and taught the guru. The guru saw his mistake and took to the path of Satya. You must not have your own faults pointed out to you by your pupil. Today the conduct of the young has gone past all bounds. So the whole future rests on the gurus. Children are like rough stones; gurus are like sculptors. Into whatever form and name the gurus make their pupils, that very shape they take. Those very qualities come to them. So the whole future of the children rests on the parents and on the gurus. So the world rests a great deal on the guru's responsibility. They will be the ones who have given the world a great many people of virtue. Regarding this as a service to God, and giving way to no temptation of any kind and to no vāsanās of the senses, they must take a vow to shape the children into the citizens of the Bhārata to come.
Today there are many women who have studied and hold jobs. Greater than that income of money is the income of looking after the household and the children and setting them right.