In plain words
Because we believe that money is everything, we are losing …. Last night I told the children. Among the five elements, they … the purse as the chief one for us. Not only is it the chief one; the five vital breaths too are the purse. However much there may be, what use is it? … had all the money he wanted in his treasury. He lay on a bed of swan's down. But with … he felt as if he lay on burning coals. The Manas is most important. When the Manas is set on the … path, everything sets out in a way that is favourable to us …; so, to shape our children in the right way, spiritual teaching must be given more and more. Only for want of … has the country come to this state. Today even the communist countries keep saying that … is very necessary. So it does not matter whatever is lacking. Without studies … it does not matter. The spiritual feeling must be made to grow. Today, becoming subject to every petty desire …, we stretch out our hands with longing for what is not eternal, not lasting. … do not give up … for the things that are eternal truth. Last night I told the children. Many go up Everest, and the flag … must be planted. Day and night they toil, poor people. Wanting to go to Everest, for them it is rest-gone. Their rest … goes. Not only this: saying they must cross the English Channel, day and night, staking even their lives to get past … the whales, they train in swimming. Is he making even the least sacrifice to gain God's grace! Is he taking even the least trouble? … how many have achieved how much of all these? There is no use at all. The one who crossed the English Channel … know. Though there were so many whales and crocodiles, he escaped them and went …, one who had staked his life, and so he won the great titles of great hero, mighty warrior … a hero! Is one a warrior for crossing the ocean? No, no. Day and night … in that swimming, and he forgot his very home, poor man. He was an Englishman. Because he stayed in the ocean in this way … …, what does his wife say? 'If he goes about in the ocean … as if gone mad, what is to become of me?' She left him and married someone else. … before he came back. She left him, saying, 'Why do I need such a man, who is always in his own selfishness without thinking of his wife's welfare, without thinking … of the welfare of the household?' By the time he came … she was not there. She was in someone else's house. When he went there she said, 'Get out.' …. Unable to bear this insult, he wanted to drink poison and die. Is this fellow a hero?