In plain words
Wondering, ‘What way is there for me to support this family?’, he searched out many kinds of ways. But none came to hand. The man went down deeper still, and thought. ‘How many people in this world, unable like me to bear the burden of a family, are falling into suffering! I should warn them too, a little,’ he resolved. He wrote out a board. He wrote his name, wrote these degrees, F.S.S. F.T.D., and hung the board up. Whose degrees were these, what were they, where had he passed and come from, had he passed abroad perhaps: many people went on criticising it and asking about it. Some students took courage and went into the man's house: ‘Sir! What have you passed? These F.S.S., what do they mean?’ they asked. ‘F.S.S.: Father of six sons,’ he said. F.T.D.: Father of ten daughters. With six sons and ten daughters, how can he support his family? This is a very sad state of affairs. In this way, as one adds to one's burdens, sorrow only grows for man and unrest only increases; Śānti and happiness are not to be had.
Man's life is a long journey. On it, the more we cut down our desires, the more happiness and Śānti we gain. This very thing is the railway department's: Less luggage more comfort make travel a pleasure. Our very desires are our luggage. Students are the young. They are the ones who must enter the ever-pure path of Satya. Unfortunately, many kinds of desire have entered the students today and are making them … like madmen. Students are not exercising the power of enquiry into what they ought to seek. Examine yourself. I am a vidyārthī, not a viṣayārthī. When you enter as a vidyārthī and you turn into a viṣayārthī, unrest goes with you like a shadow. In man there are two kinds of principle. Man has two kinds of form. What they are …; in the Bhagavad Gītā He went on teaching two kinds of Dharma. Svadharma and paradharma, He said. What is this svadharma? I am a brāhmaṇa, I am a kṣatriya, I am a vaiśya, I am a śūdra: this is not Dharma. Sva is the Ātma. Svadharma and the Dharma of the Ātma are one. Paradharma. The Dharma that belongs to the body is the second. Svadharma: this itself is sālokya, …, sāmīpya. Svadharma is only the Dharma of the Ātma. What is the principle of this svadharma? Nirguṇaṃ, nirañjanaṃ, sanātanaṃ, niketanaṃ, nitya śuddha buddha nirmala svarūpiṇaṃ. These sacred, divine feelings, rising in a heart ever new and leading one onto the sacred path, are the Dharmas of the Ātma. Paradharma means what belongs to the body. Many of you know this. When Bhārata was wasting away in the hands of foreigners, many people of Bhārata went on waging a struggle for it, that they might free it from slavery and … independence. At that time they followed a certain kind of key.