In plain words
We must develop firm resolves of this kind. Students today are becoming slaves to the senses, but they are not mastering the senses. Students! You are brahmacārīs. You are young. You will become masters. Who is a master? Only he who keeps the senses under control. When we become slaves to the senses, then we become misters. To be a slave to the senses and give oneself the name of master is not fitting. So students today must keep the senses under control. We must not be given over to the senses. We must develop steadiness. We must not have a wavering mind. The sons of the ṛṣis of those days practised long tapas in this way. But according to the conditions and influences of those days, the firmness of the students was of that kind. They offered that much devotion too. In them discrimination was that powerful. So, because they had devotion, discrimination and determination, they were able to reach divinity.
Devotion today, it seems, is a deep ocean. What is it, where is it, this devotion? Devotion is not merely doing japa and doing dhyāna. We must sacrifice our life for the sake of our ideals. This is true devotion. We must put śraddhā into every work we do. Until this work is done, we must not waver in the least. That is true firmness. That is: duty is GOD. work is worship. If you do sincerely what you have set out to do, you must take that as devotion. Next, discrimination. How are we discriminating? We discriminate according to our need. We discriminate according to our convenience. We discriminate according to our time. We discriminate according to our ability. We discriminate in order to defend our own, even when it is a fault. This is not right. This is merely selfish discrimination. Merely individual discrimination. Fundamental discrimination is needed. For me, for you, for them, for anyone at all, truth must stay truth. Whoever does the discriminating, the answer must come: this is right. But the discrimination of today does not come out that way. They discriminate in order to defend their own.