In plain words
There is no other that can be compared with it. But in this modern age, science and technology, which have kept developing at great speed, have blown like a great gale, and many kinds of change are coming into physical life. It is true that in physical, worldly and scientific matters mankind has reached a high level. But morally, in Dharma and spiritually, it has sunk low in many ways. It has knocked down moral values. We go on building machines merely for comfort and pleasure, for enjoyments and riches; but the knowledge that we in turn are becoming slaves to those very machines is fading to nothing in them. So students must strive as they should to enjoy, or to use, science and technology in the right way. Science and technology are not bad. But we must make some changes in the way we use them. Though the student has the strength and ability to make such changes, he is not able to put it to good use.
Society is sinking very low morally; on this matter, those who wish the country well, and even those who long to see the world's tradition develop, are not developing the attention it needs. If those who wish the world well, those who want the good of the community, give no such zeal and encouragement, what way can the young take? There is a saying in Telugu. If the cow strays into the crop and grazes there, will the calf stay on the bank? When the elders themselves, who long for the country's welfare, keep faith with the country and give fierce lectures in many ways for its prosperity, stay without giving this the attention it needs, how can children develop it? So, first of all, along with their studies, students must develop saṃskāra too. If students are to live with good saṃskāra, the parents must give them a good example of it. Only when the parents are people of great saṃskāra can the students too develop great saṃskāra.
Unfortunately, today the parents themselves are not developing good saṃskāra. They may be highly learned. They may be very rich. They may believe in the culture of Bhārata. But in practice they may amount to nothing. It is because of such parents that the plight of students is travelling down this kind of road. When the parents get up quarrelling, their children get up fighting. Unfortunately, the elders are losing the strength and ability to give today's students the zeal and encouragement they need and to make them into the citizens of the future. They hope their children will become highly learned.