In plain words
What is the result that comes of this? If all the sounds ‘Rāma, Kṛṣṇa, Govinda’ come, those sounds enter us. Those sounds rise from us too.
Students! Try to know the principle of God well. Whatever programme, whatever small matter Swami thinks of here, it is bound up with an inner meaning alone; nothing meaningless at all happens here. You will not understand it in this state, in this situation. Little by little you will come to know it and set about experiencing it to some extent. So do not neglect the remembrance of God's Name. Develop faith. Only because that faith is missing in the world today do many kinds of wickedness take place. It is not that the world has no learning. There are as many educated people as you could want. But in them there is no purity of citta. There is no control of the senses. I told you the other day. Rāvaṇa studied sixty-four branches of learning. Rāma learned only thirty-four branches of learning. In learning and knowledge Rāvaṇa was greater than Rāma. But what was the difference between Rāma and Rāvaṇa? Rāma was a jñānī. Rāvaṇa was ignorant. What is the difference between this Ajñāna and Jñāna? The one who controlled the senses was Rāma. The one who was a slave to the senses was Rāvaṇa. That is precisely why Vālmīki said, ‘Rāvaṇo nāma mūrkhāsau’: Rāvaṇa is the greatest of fools. Did Rāvaṇa have no learning? He had. Even with learning, he became a slave to the senses. So we must make the effort needed to control the senses. If we do not control them, they will ruin us in every way. They will drown our very humanness. They will bring us ill fame. So take the remembrance of the Name as your support, think of it as a boat, and set out to cross the ocean called worldly life.