In plain words
Our evil qualities are our demons. Sacred, good feelings are the gods. We must welcome all the gods and give a send off to the demons that are our evil qualities. We must achieve this every day with effort. Many students are very intelligent. They have great powers of intellect too. But they have no general knowledge. They do not know how to behave, at what time, when, where and in what way. So we must develop this knowledge of acting with presence of mind. We must show humility to our elders. We must set the right ideal in society. We must take care not to talk too much. I have told you many times. That the tongue commits four kinds of sin. First, speaking Asatya. Second, carrying tales. Third, abusing others; fourth, talking too much. That is why the Veda too has shown three kinds of faults. Among birds, they have said, the crow is very sinful. Among beasts, they have said, the donkey. Among men, who is the lowest? The one who has no gratitude. The one who abuses others is the lowest, they have said. So we must not abuse others. We must not mock anyone. We must show gratitude. The sun has three names. Himaghnāya namaḥ, tamoghnāya namaḥ. Kṛtaghnaghnāya namaḥ. What does this mean? The sun is the one who drives away darkness. He is the one who drives away darkness and ignorance. Himaghnāya namaḥ: the sun melts even hardened ice and makes it flow. Kṛtaghnaghnāya namaḥ: the one who forgets the good done to him, who not only forgets but turns ungrateful and hostile: the sun, they say, takes away the sight of such a man. Because in that form, it comes as the form of the eye. The moon was born from His Manas; from His eye the sun was born. In our eye is the reflection of the sun. Seeing this ungrateful man, sight says, ‘Am I to live in the eye of such a man? Chee! I will not stay,’ and leaves the ungrateful man, they say. So we must be grateful. We must not become ungrateful. We must not forget the good done to us. We must not forget the joy we have received. That is true humanness. To make this humanness grow, we must keep proper discipline in our Hostel. If we achieve this sense of measure and contentment with effort, this is the true principle of yoga. This principle of yoga itself gives us every kind of enjoyment.
Students! Why have I not come to this Hostel for these sixteen months? Only because discipline was spoiled. So at least from today, discipline must be good. Even if you have no marks in some subject or other, it does not matter. But you must not bring Remarks in discipline. In our Institute the true subject, the very first subject, is DISCIPLINE. If not in that, then bring an ‘O’ grade in any other subject, bring a grade higher still: that is no joy to me.