In plain words
Do not bring that in, at least. Develop those bhajans, and through this you can raise up the world as much as you like.
So, above all, from today give no room to these crazy feelings and these crazy thoughts; think sacred thoughts, see to the work you came for, conduct yourselves well in discipline, get good marks in class, and set about making your parents happy. But do not forget one thing. Do not imagine, even in your imagination, that Swami is angry. I am not angry. This play is natural to you. Knowing such things, why should I get angry? The pain is: when will you realise? The pain is that you have not conducted yourselves well. The pain is that you are not studying properly. The pain is that you are not united with one another. Whenever we look, one envying another, one angry with another, one carrying tales against another: this should not be in our children. But on the whole it is there in all of them. One says, ‘He has jealousy.’ But he does not think, ‘Have I not got it too?’ One who tells others must see that it is not in himself. So: for what you have enjoyed here all this time, keep at least that gratitude in your heart. If we have no gratitude, we truly become lower than beasts. Whoever it may be, we must never forget a good turn done to us. One who forgets is an ingrate, not one who has gratitude. As long as it is in us, we will grow in safety. We will reach any height, however great. Ahaṅkāra and ingratitude: both must go. We must not keep Ahaṅkāra. We must not be ingrates. These two alone are the chief maxims for man. So study: the exams are coming soon, in March. You must reach the higher level in the right way; every one of you must get an ‘O’ grade. People say, ‘I got 60%, I got 50%.’ If you get 50%, what has become of the other 50%? If you get 60%, where has the 40% gone? None of this must happen. You must bring the whole of it. You must become students like that. Develop proper discipline in the hostel. You may be here today. You may go tomorrow. But you must set an example for the children who come after. A good example. How were all the children who went before? You must not bring a bad name. You must set a fine example. Live like this and earn a fair name; you must go in such a way that such a feeling of Prema grows in the children who stay behind: ‘Ah, such a good boy has passed out of the hostel and gone!’ You must not behave so as to make them sick of you: thank goodness, that boy has gone; what a relief! Even after you leave, your name must stay good in the hostel. You need nothing; trust fully that what Swami says is sacred, and follow it.