In plain words
Students! All things without exception perish in keeping with time. It is true that when time, karma, cause and duty come together, even the body has to be given up. But though the body dies, the ideal remains, eternal and lasting. That itself is the principle of living for ever. We must become people who hold out that ideal. This very ideal stays, eternal, in the hearts of the people through generation after generation. So we must have hopes. There must be a limit to hopes too. To try to perform the karmas of duty within that limit, keeping society in view, is itself the enjoyment fit for sacrifice. Truly, when we enter into work for the good of others, the Ānanda that comes to us is beyond measure. Through that very sacrifice we are able to enjoy this enjoyment called Ānanda. When we perform karmas expecting something in return, we gain no Ānanda. So in the world there are two things we must forget. If we achieve these two, this itself becomes enjoyment joined with sacrifice. What are these that we must forget? We must forget the help we have given to others. If we do not forget it and keep it in our very heart, we may come to some disappointment, expecting a return for that help. Or it may even open the way to hatred and envy. So we must forget the help we give the moment we give it. Now the second. We must forget the harm others have done to us. If we keep thinking of the very harm others have done to us, wicked feelings arise in us to do harm back to them. So, that such wicked feelings may not arise, we must forget, there and then, the harm others have done us too. To forget both, the help we have given others and the harm others have done us, itself becomes enjoyment joined with sacrifice. If, instead, we keep remembering always the help we gave and the harm others did, we only take the shape of a house of filth. It becomes only like a rubbish heap full of stench. Our body. This is not good. Whatever we think of, we have its reaction.