In plain words
Making their time fruitful on roots and tubers alone, they kept the tongue's cravings for taste trodden down. Unfortunately, in this Kali age, they turn the Cāturmāsya vows into a special and showy feast. Every day there must be tasty dishes. Each day some devotee must give them a feast. They enjoy this in the name of bhikṣā. In this way, as time changes, they turn even sacred ideas onto an unholy path. The sannyāsīs of today cannot recognise the Satya that all such vows arose to tread down the greed of the tongue. When you cannot restrain the senses, how can you attain divinity? How can you experience it?
If the house is burning, you can come out and run far away. If the home catches fire, you can at least run to some other place. If the senses themselves catch fire, where else is there to run? In today's conditions, the senses of the sādhakas themselves have caught fire. How then are we to gauge this? When a man has fever, we can put in a thermometer and find out how much there is. But what if the thermometer itself has fever? The sādhus and sannyāsīs of today are inflaming their own senses themselves.
In Jerusalem, in a temple, they were selling doves. Jesus went in and condemned it, saying that such trade must not go on in the sacred temples of God. All the heads of the monasteries joined together as one. “Where have you any authority to preach Dharma? Tell us what your authority is,” they said. Then Jesus told a story. A farmer had two sons. One day he commanded his elder son to go to the field and keep watch over it. But the elder son said, “I won't go, I can't.” All right, he commanded the second son. “Go to the field and keep watch in case any cattle get in,” he said. The second son promised he would go. After a while the first son, though he had said he would not go, went himself, thinking it was not right to disobey his father's command. The second son said he would go but did not go. He went off to the bazaar somewhere. “Now, which of these obeyed the father's command? You tell me,” he said. The elder one bowed to his father's command. The second son said, “I will go,” but did not go. All the pandits of today are in this same state. They promise, “We will practise what the father called the Śāstra has taught.” Without practising it, they act against the word of God, that father. “So all of you are like this,” said Jesus.