In plain words
If you studied well, why did you not pass? Carry out your duty well. While you are a student, carry out a student's Dharma well. While you are a householder, carry out a householder's Dharma well. So, whatever place we are in, we must behave as befits it. For everything we must take God as our support. The one who lacks it, even the crows will not touch. So we must develop good feelings. Whatever happens, one must compare it within oneself. In children this is very necessary. If we hurt anyone, we must think, “How painful it would be if others caused us this pain.” This is just what Sītā, the daughter of the Earth, taught Rāvaṇa. Rāvaṇa came and found fault with Śrī Rāmacandra. “I am very handsome. I am a great king. I will provide comforts beyond Vaikuṇṭha. Choose me,” he commanded. Then Sītā said, “Rāvaṇa! If another man carried off your wife Mandōdarī, how would you be? Because you carried me off, my Lord is suffering in separation. Take yourself as the example. If someone carried off your wife, would you stay calm?” When we cast an evil eye on others, others cast an evil eye on our own people. When an evil eye falls on our own people, on our sisters, we must correct ourselves: “Would I keep quiet? This is wrong.” Through such examples our students must grow well.
What we need today is good behaviour, good manners, good discipline. Only when all these are there does a true good life come. But today we do not believe in it. The one who has manners is a man. What are manners? Our thoughts, words and actions must become one. The proper study of mankind is man. At the very start I said in the poem, “Good in the heart, good in the word, good in the deed”: these alone shape our life well. Sweetness in the words and bitterness kept in the heart is not good. Today our people's words are sweet. But if you look at the mind, it is bitter. You must make the mind sweet. Only then will your sight be sweet, your hearing sweet, your heart sweet: everything will turn out sweet. If we pour juice into this tumbler and make a hole in it anywhere, juice alone comes out of that hole. Within the vessel called my heart, fill what is called God's Prema. Your actions, your looks, your words will all come out sweet.
So I wish that the students, together with their learning, take the principle of God's Prema and a broad heart, trample down selfishness, Ahaṅkāra and pomp, and live as ideals; with this wish and with My blessing I bring My discourse to a close.