In plain words
Who created this wind? Here there are three kinds of light. The light God has given is the sun. He shines on the whole world. However high the voltage of the bulb we put up, it can be there in our room. It can be outside. It can go as far as the bazaar. Will it give light to the whole town? If you set up a pump-set, water comes only some little distance. But when a downpour falls, a whole Gaṅgā flows. Who is it that gives this water, this air and this light? We enjoy all these, but what do we give in gratitude for them? If our towel falls down and someone hands it back to us, we say thanks. Even if someone gives us some small thing, we say thanks. We say thanks for every little thing, but when God does good that uplifts humanness, which is eternally true and the support of our life, who says thanks? Is this what should be in man? Is this the discrimination that education should have, the discernment the educated should have? No, no. With humility and obedience, we must offer fitting gratitude to anyone who has done us good. Studies without this gratitude are nothing but rubbish. Those who send us to study are our parents; those who teach us are our gurus. The One who gives learning and helps us receive it is God. That is why the Vedas speak of mother, father, guru and God: ‘Mātṛdevo bhava, pitṛdevo bhava, ācāryadevo bhava.’ What is the inner meaning in reciting these? We must show gratitude to our parents and give fitting honour to our gurus. We must live trusting God. But today you swagger, thinking you live by leaning on your body, on your Buddhi and your cleverness. You must recognise that this is madness.
Students! We must try to look at the true form of Prakṛti, just once, with a broad vision.