In plain words
Humanness is that very thing whose form is Satya, Jñāna and the Infinite. We think of humanness as mere smallness. So we must not take the word of elders, the words of gurus, or the words of God in a spirit of mockery. The Yādava clan was the very race in which Kṛṣṇa Himself appeared and came down as the Avatāra. Yet because some in that Yādava clan dishonoured one great soul, went against that great soul's word and mocked it, the whole Yādava clan was burned to ash in a moment. So we must not take lightly the words of the great. We must not mock them. If you do not understand, try as far as you can to understand; but to go against those words or to mock them is a quality contrary to humanness. We have histories of every kind. We must keep the example of exemplary men always in mind. The words of these elders will be needed some time or other in life. We do not need all the medicines kept in the hostel right away. We need them some day, when illness comes to us. For the moment you may not need medicine. But not a single medicine is useless. So we may regard the words of God and the words of elders as medicines. There is no need to take them as a feast. At a feast you may leave aside a pappaḍam or a vaḍa …, but with these medicines you must take even what has settled at the bottom, water in it, …. You cannot leave it. So regard the words of God as medicine and cure the illness of worldly existence in your lives.
Today, in this worldly existence, there are diseases of the body, diseases of the mind, diseases of knowledge and many more. For every disease the right medicine is the Name of God. So only when you utter that Name of God from the heart, honour the word of elders, look on no one with mockery, foster the feeling of God in all and try to live in the feeling of oneness, will you become exemplary figures. So do not think of study as being for the sake of study; recognise that study is for saṃskāra. Study without saṃskāra is nothing but rubbish. Along with studies there must be saṃskāra. This chance has come through some saṃskāra or other from a past life. We must hold fast to the good chance that has come our way. We must make good use of it. But what we must above all recognise today is that karma is the ground of everything, of good and bad, of happiness and sorrow.