In plain words
Even if you dislike it, even if you are weary of it, we will not let go. If, not liking this medicine, you give it up and mean to leave it, you yourselves will be the losers. Your very life will be spoiled. Truly, when we join this college or any other school, however important we hold our subjects to be, we must get good marks in the subject called discipline above all subjects. In the Sathya Sai College the chief subject is discipline. Some people go on about English medium, Kannada medium, Telugu medium, first language, second language, third language; but for us the first medium, the chief place, belongs to discipline alone! Discipline is our very life. In olden times the people of Bhārata kept the body shapely and comely, ‘the garment, the forehead mark, the tuft of hair’; in their dress, the feet were to walk set upon the ground. On the head, plenty of sunlight. All the vitamins come in well. All those rays of the sun must fall well upon our body. Through all this, our forefathers went on lengthening the span of their lives in those days. Today we have become people who are not granted even one ray of the sun. We are in the sorry state of being unable to let the sun's power of attraction spread through our body even a little. Boots on the feet. A suit on the thighs, a coat on the arms, a hat (Hat) on the head. From foot to head we bind ourselves up. Nor is that all. We tighten a tie round ourselves as one tightens a noose. This is the progress there is in Bhārata today.
But we have not been granted the good fortune of living our life as a long life, a life of benefit to others, a life in society. Because the British took over Bhārata, and because in Bhārata there were no people who knew English to do the jobs that suited them, they taught English to our people of Bhārata and went on training them in a way that fitted them for jobs. That is why in those days they created education for the sake of their employees.
In those days education was created for the sake of jobs; now they are trying to create jobs for the sake of education. That is why Bhārata today is wasting away under the problems of unemployment: it is being scorched. Whatever office you go to, students come for jobs like beggars, holding out this bowl called a degree and begging, “A job, a job.”
Students, you who are pure of heart, embodiments of Prema: truly, the students of our college must stand on their own feet, be a help to their parents, work hard, raise production, and strive to give the country an ideal life.