In plain words
The oneness of thoughts and actions is true humanness
These three qualities are the true marks of a pativratā. Experiencing servitude with the body, the principle of reflection with the jīva, and the principle of the Ātma with the Ātma: that, they said, is brahmacarya. Hold these feelings and enter any work you like, and it becomes brahmacarya itself. If you take up sannyāsa while you hold such feelings, that sannyāsa too is brahmacarya! So it must be the chief hidden stream in all four floors. In that way students must lay the foundations of brahmacarya. At this age they must cultivate pure feelings. Only then will they do pure deeds. Through these pure feelings and deeds, growth comes step by step. So if purity is to grow, it must grow only through pure actions. We must keep these two in view. The oneness of thoughts and actions is true humanness. So students, wherever you go, whatever work you do, whatever āśrama you enter, be it gṛhastha, vānaprastha or sannyāsa, you must remain brahmacārīs! In all of them you must hold the three qualities as dear as life. Only then will our life be an ideal life.
Rivers are the true sannyāsīs
Here is a fine example of this. I went to Rishikesh. Śivānanda was 78 years old then. When we all went, Śivānanda welcomed us all there. He said he had started the Divine Life Society. One had to pay a fee of 4 annas for it, he said. ‘Divine life is not something you start; it is always there,’ I said. ‘It needs not 4 annas but 4 virtues,’ I said. One day, after talking of many things, we all sat down for bhajan. Tired with age, he fell asleep. His disciples were fanning him. One disciple, fanning with one hand and doing bhajan with the other, went on and on, and brought his hand down on his guru's head.