In plain words
And then we go on chanting the Veda, eighteen sections, eighty sections. This is only an exercise for the throat, and of no use at all. And we read the Upaniṣads and all these too, but it becomes just like reading a book of novels. If we read them all as stories, how will we understand them? If we read them like stories, "That maharṣi was like this, this maharṣi was like that," there is no use in it. Only when we read with faith do they cease to be stories and become states that end our sorrows.
Students! Stories can never take our sorrows away. If we want to remove our sorrows, we must make our own effort, with our own strength and ability. This very duty we must carry out. Still, we must also come to know some of these stories, and through them take in the sacredness within them. When we eat, we eat what is wholesome and leave aside what is not. When there is fruit in a basket, we eat the good fruit. We throw away the rotten fruit. In the same way, of the bad thoughts and good thoughts that rise from our citta, what we must take in are the good thoughts, and what we must cast off are the bad thoughts. We should not try to eat bad thoughts, thinking, "After all, they were born from me." We should never look at the bad in others. Because someone has harmed us, we should not try to harm them in return. When someone harms us, we call them bad. If you harm them in return, how do you become good? You become bad yourself. If you keep doing good to the one who harmed you, that is your goodness. So we must develop the good within us. Through this alone divinity comes to us.
Be good. Do good. See good. This is the way to Swamy.