In plain words
Life has a goal. To recognise that goal and to act by it is the most urgent need of man. Do not think that life is transient. The body is transient, but life is permanent. But we must show forth a life of Satya as an ideal … life. The nature of the body, being impermanent, is impermanent; but the nature of life, which is Satya and eternal, is permanent …, so we must live it as an ideal. The students of today must stand as models. They must … as embodiments of sacrifice. They must be devoted to Satya and Dharma. They must practise the spiritual feeling. Of all paths the spiritual path is the very highest. 'Vidyānāṃ ātmavidyā.' Above all learning, the learning of the Ātma is the finest. All kinds of learning are like rivers. The root, the goal and the meeting place of all learning is spiritual learning. Spiritual learning is like the ocean. All kinds of learning are like rivers. 'Nadīnāṃ sāgaro gatiḥ': for all rivers the goal is the ocean alone. For all paths, the moral, the …, the spiritual, the worldly and the scientific, the spiritual alone is the goal. There are many people in Bhārata who have followed this noble, divine path. The children said that … do not know about Jayadeva.
Jayadeva means one who has conquered his own life, a god indeed. Some say he was born in West Bengal, others that he was born in Orissa, and they differ. In this way they pass their time in … about the nature of great souls. Wherever the flower may be, what is that to us? Its fragrance we …. Wherever he was born, his spiritual fragrance blew across the whole world. If we truly look into his good story, there was once a village called Bilvagrāma near the town of Purī in the land of Orissa. … In Bilvagrāma lived a middle-class Brāhmin named Bhojadeva. His wife was Ramādevī. These … lived in that village following the spiritual path, spending their time in the thought of God. The holy son of … holy couple was Jayadeva. From his birth his heart kept entering only the … of God.
Among the nine kinds of Bhakti, Madhura Bhakti was very dear to him. His view was this: in the … there are no men at all. All are women. The faith that God alone is the Puruṣa took deep root … him. That is, what did he mean? Does 'man' mean that one is a man merely by putting on a bush coat, trousers, a dhoti … ? The one who has self-control, the one who experiences the principle of the Ātma: that is a man.