Passage 14

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In plain words

Your life will reach a most exalted level. That you should walk in … …: I do not say this for any selfish end of mine. I say… … everything for you alone: what I do, what I say, what I see, what I speak, all of it is for you alone. I have set my Life … …. When I speak one word with those who have come from thousands of miles, they are… … full of joy. Though I have spoken with you for years on end, that joy does not come to you! … … it is fate. When they come, they come with great love and enthusiasm. Why is it that midway they come and chang… …? The elders here are not showing you a proper example. … … the children are going bad. The teachers are the root cause of the children going bad. Those teachers too … …. It is not their fault. Choosing such people is our fault. They will set things right somehow. We had hoped so much that they would … … the children's growth. Not even one … … to show a single example. Wherever you look, selfishness, selfishness. Is this their life? Now the educated … … what more can he teach others! It is no use. Teachers must have two … …. By teaching they become teachers. The second is being in practi… … when both are missing, how can they be men of authority at all? One must not strive … … for authority alone. One must strive for practice. If you ask whom all this is bad for, it is their own … harm. See how fine our 'Gītā' is. Bathe her well … … call her and bring her, and as she comes up the bank she lifts all the mud with her trunk and throws it on her own hea… … In the same way the sins and wrongs you do, they … on themselves, but nothing … to anyone else: this truth must be recognised well. This is the nature of an elephant in rut.

So I bless you, hoping that you will not change in that way but will show true humility and obedience and take shape as ideal students, and I stop here. From today … be good. I too will be with you as your companion and keep wish… … your progress. What is past is past. From now on, be happy. If you are happy …, I will come now and then. I will speak to you. Joyfully I will … … you enthusiasm. I have no enthusiasm of my own. Your enthusiasm is my enthusiasm. I have no joy … … of my own. If you are happy, that joy feels like joy to me. When you are not right … that very thing is reflected in me. Do not set too much store by studies. What are subjects?