In plain words
Your food, your blood, your head, your money, all of it is your parents' gift; so first of all you must show gratitude to your parents. What is your learning for, if it cannot please them? What is your education for, if it cannot satisfy the very mother and father who bore you? If you abandon your aged mother and father, go to a foreign land and wander about there …, how can your sin do anything but grow? You must stay near your mother and father and look after them with special care. That is your duty. Only when we develop sacred feelings like this does our citta turn steady. For this you need no special exercises. They lie right on an easy path, in our Vedānta. Only when he goes along a path like this can man change, not only into man, but into Mādhava as well. But leave aside man changing into Mādhava; man is not even changing into man. Man is changing into a demon. So by sacred feelings, by sacred sādhanas and by sacred thoughts we can turn our restlessness into steadiness.
Everything in life is nothing but passing clouds. Not one thing is steady. We think of the newborn as a child. At ten years he becomes a boy, and at thirty he becomes a man. At seventy-five he becomes a grandfather. Though child, boy, man and grandfather are one person, how many changes he has gone through, by the circumstances of time and the force of time! All things are things that change. If you take everything to be change, there will be no need for sorrow over it at all. A pleasure is an interval between pain and pleasure. Pleasure lies right between two pains. This is what Vedānta says: na sukhāt labhyate sukhaṃ. Pleasure does not come to us through pleasure. It comes only through hardship. If you sit twenty-four hours in an air condition room, you will not know the value of air condition. When you have walked about two hours in the sun and then enter an air condition room, we know its value. Without going through hardship, we do not understand the value of pleasure. That is why: karmaṇyeva adhikāraste; karma alone is our right.