In plain words
You describe yourself in many ways: that you are very powerful, that you are a great ruler, that you are very clever, and you boast of the strength of your arm and the strength of your mind.” Rāvaṇa was no ordinary person. He had mastered the sixty-four arts. Not only that; he had learnt the arts called Gokarṇa and Gajakarṇa. He had learnt the language of birds and the language of beasts. He knew so many arts. What use was it? He could not know himself. Then Sītā brought this home to him well. “Rāvaṇa! You believe it is a great thing to carry off another man's wife, to steal her away like a thief. When another man carries off your wife, how will you bear it?” That word went fairly straight into Rāvaṇa's heart and lodged there. “It is easy to carry off another man's wife; but if someone carried off my own wife, could I bear it, could I endure it, could I stay at peace?” he asked himself. In the same way, if we think, ‘It is someone else's work, someone else's money, someone else's affair,’ it is no good. We must take it as our own affair: ‘How would I suffer if others took away what is mine?’
Cleanliness is Divinity
Students! This is your home. Whether you look at the tables or at the chairs, you must feel that all this is yours. You must not spoil it. I must not keep what is in my room dirty. Would I really keep my room in such a disgusting state? If some friends came and saw it, what a disgrace it would be to me! In the same way, you must keep the rooms you live in just as clean. Even if someone has thrown his things there and made it dirty, whoever sees it must put it in order. He must clean it. If twenty live in one room, should not even one of them have some sense? If you go on like this, saying, “If he does it, what is it to me? If this one does it, what is it to me?”, how can you feel that this is your home? Otherwise you could make a time table, with each one cleaning on his own day. Those rooms are dirty too. Once, when a student fell ill and I came to see him, the room was like a rubbish heap.