In plain words
One disciple of the one, and the chief disciple of the other: Bhoja Rāja took them and set the two of them to debate. The gurus of that day agreed to it too. They were ready to stand by the truth that if my disciple is defeated, it is as if I am defeated. Theirs were hearts filled with such a path of Satya, a path of firm resolve, a pure feeling; so the teachers of that day were ready to stand by this truth. Just as in the gurus, no weakness at all showed in either of the disciples. In a debate that pleased the people and kept to Dharma, both kept rising in zeal and spirit. All those who recognised the worth of the students praised the teachers' virtues in many ways, with a thousand tongues. So we can recognise the strength and ability of teachers by the students' successes and by their conduct. Only when we become such teachers will our wish, and the resolves we have made, have the chance to come to fullness.
Truly, we can say that no one in this world has greater strength and ability than teachers. We think that a president or a prime minister holds a very high position in a country. But the one who gave that position to the president or to the prime minister was none other than a teacher. But because today's teachers have no such courage and daring, because their strength and ability have grown weak, they have lost the authority to speak with such courage. So we must not think of teachers as people in some weak position. We must give no room to the feeling that it is just some job, that we went into teaching because no job came our way. The authority of the teacher is far higher than that of all the officials in the world. Only when they use it well are they its full holders.
Truly, man must develop sacred feelings and human qualities within himself. Those human values are Satya, Dharma, Śānti, Prema and Ahiṃsā. A small example. We tie a watch on the wrist. What is the inner meaning of this watch? It is what tells the time. It does not only tell the time; it is an ornament too. With all our watches today, what we enjoy is only telling the time, and wearing them as ornaments with all kinds of chains. Long ago, when these watches first came, our people of Bhārata, seeing one, thought of it as some kind of marvel.