In plain words
We think we have made all kinds of sacrifices. In truth, no human being in this world is seen to have given up all attachment. This is merely what people tell themselves for their own satisfaction. The feeling of offering to God alone is the giving up of all attachment. Where is this offering to God? If this offering to God were really there, the world would not be in such sorrow and unrest.
We must follow the path of Satya. What is Satya? We think Satya is to say what we have seen just as we saw it, what was said just as it was said, what we thought just as we thought it. This is not Satya. Satya is that which does not change at any time. This vow of Satya too is bound by strict rules. In this Satya many kinds of sorrow come too. Worldly truth is a danger to life. But we must not throw this Satya away, calling it dangerous. We must bring this Satya in with regard to time and circumstance: speak the truth; let it be pleasant; let it not be the unpleasant truth. Satya must be pleasing. Satya must be beneficial. Satya must be very sweet. It must not be harsh. Even a truth that is unpleasant must not be spoken. We must not speak Asatya because it will please him. For this there are many ways. There are certain rules too. So, keeping such rules, holding Satya in view and regarding Satya as God, we must do our duty.
Students! Today we try to study for the sake of jobs of one kind or another. This is unfortunate. Even before the day we enter a subject, our desires begin. If I take this subject, what jobs can I do in the future? If I take what degree, what kind of position can I get? It is with such a plan that we first enter education. You must recognise the truth that this education is for the sake of life, not for the sake of a living. So we must first cut the close tie between this job and this education. This system of education goes on in a way that has neither life nor skill. Our system of education must have skill. Life must come into our system of education. We must see that a sacred atmosphere grows in society. We must drive away what are called corruption, ignorance and unrest. You must become a karma yogi. You must offer every power of yours to this society. Not only the strength of the body, not only the strength of the mind, but the strength of learning too we must bring into this society, and so shape ourselves into a broad heart.
Students! We must not toil for the sake of money. We must toil for the sake of good character. Where there is character, there is wealth. In pleasure there is disease. In tyāga there is yoga.