In plain words
She joins together one or two of the dhotis her father has cast off and wears them as saris. No one else can offer such an ideal life. Such a sacred life Mani Behn used to lead. Not one among today's young men or young women can lead such an ideal life. They simply go about for the sake of worldly show, wasting money and causing their parents hardship.
Students! Your life, your blood, your body, your all is the gift of your parents. We must take care, as far as we can, that no hardship comes to such parents. Do not misuse the money your parents have earned simply for the sake of show. As for us: Do'nt waste food, Do'nt waste time, Do'nt waste money, Do'nt waste energy; so we have divided it into four parts. This very thing has been called celing on desires. We must try to keep our desires under control as far as we can. You do not know how hard your parents toil to bring you up and how they strive for your progress. Without putting too much strain on them, we must look to the work that is right for us. Having come to the Sathya Sai Institute, you must show a true ideal. This itself is the chief sacrifice you must truly make. When we speak of sacrifice, to leave home and hearth, wife and children, and go to the forests is not sacrifice. To give up wicked feelings within one's thoughts: that itself becomes sacrifice. That itself becomes bhoga. So long as there are wicked feelings and wicked resolves, we become people who have sacrificed good feelings, not people who have sacrificed wicked feelings. Bhoga, bhoga: what is bhoga, what is happiness? To eat costly food, to wear costly clothes, to enjoy life as something costly: that is not bhoga. It is not in this that we are great. To reduce our longings and strive for the path of Śānti is sacrifice. To swell our desires beyond limit, to swell our longings beyond limit, and lose our reason, is not sacrifice.
Once they questioned the Buddha, who is the richest man in the world?' He who has much satisfaction is the richest man,' He said; who is the poorest man in the world, Master'. He who has many desires is the poorest man in the world,' He answered. Hearing the discourse of the Buddha, who was giving such teachings of sacrifice, a great king hoped to win the Buddha's praise. The Buddha used always to keep a drum beside Him. His disciples, to Him: 'Swami! Why do You always keep the drum with You? they asked. On the day one comes to Me with complete sacrifice, on that day I will beat this drum,' He said.