In plain words
In the world, many dreadful deeds: we must search out why they happen. Because selfless service has dwindled, meaningless desires have grown great.
Embodiments of Prema!
You must not waste precious time, not even half a minute. Taking life to be real and forgetting his own duty, he is losing the divinity of humanness. Wasting time in meaningless words, man believes that he has accomplished some great work. Service is like a sharp knife. Only when it is in the hand of one who knows well the nature of this knife does it do great good. But in the hand of one who does not know the ways of a knife, it does nothing but great harm. How must you use a knife? In what work must you employ it? How must you hold it? This is what you must recognise first. Karma too is just like this.
How must we use this karma? On what occasions and at what times must we put it to good use? Only those who know well what its good and its bad are should set foot in this realm of karma. People who cannot recognise the principle of karma enter this realm of karma, move far from selfless service and dedicate their time wholly to selfishness and self-interest alone; and so the value of service has dwindled. So, for service, first of all we must examine ourselves whether we have the qualities fit for it or not. The chief qualities for it are kindness, humility and sacrifice. Only a person who has such qualities can take part in service, do selfless service and give the world an ideal path. One who enters into it through Ahaṅkāra, through show, through attachment, cannot do service in the least. Through Ahaṅkāra man criticises humanness itself. Through attachment he attains beastliness.