Passage 11

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In plain words

Enthusiasm comes. That is why I did not … … to speak at all.

But all the boys came and were very distressed. I have not the least … in hurting you. 'Sai melts at a falling teardrop.' It is only because those boys were distressed that I have come … and am standing. When I look after… … you with such love, so as not to hurt you, is it any noble way for you to set out to hurt Swami so much? I want nothing from …. Be good. Earn a good name; earn the … of being ideal men. If only you become worthy of Swami's grace, the whole world will come into your han… … you do not recognise Swami's principle well. You do not understand it. That is your … …, the karma of other births.

Make a bed of green camphor in the plot, pour fragrant musk on it for manure, raise it pouring good rose-water on it: does the onion give up its own stink?

… even if you pour rose-water, make camphor the soil and put musk on for manure, the onion's smell does not go. … the bad feelings and bad thoughts in you keep on smelling like that onion. What is the use of giving so much coun… … and so much teaching?! … … these onions called bad feelings down to the roots; only then will your life hold out a high ideal. For having come here, if you develop even … two high feelings, that is enough for me. Your parents will have … … with great hope. Your friends will be watching with great eagerness for the change in you. … nothing at all. If you go back just as you came, how much disrepute you will have brought on this institution! Having joined … institution and studied so long, is this the bad name you bring? If there is no fame, it does … not matter. Only do not bring a bad name. Become ideal students of this kind; I had placed so much … … hope that if our own students became our teachers this institution would do very well. But even in our students this purity is not … … at all. Only if they are good will the institution gain any good name. If the broom is dirty, the whole house becomes dirty. Only if you are good will the children … grow up good from you.