In plain words
Learning has grown manifold; desires have run past every limit; a hero in words, a zero in deeds. With all this cleverness, what is the gain? Put at least a little of it into practice!
However many pleasures and riches one may have won, know that man has no contentment; only when the principle of the Ātma is known do contentment and Śānti come to man.
Embodiments of Prema, students!
Whatever object in the world man looks at, it brings him fear and anxiety. Vairāgya alone gives man fearlessness. Unable to recognise this supreme Satya, people in the world keep developing desires of every kind. So long as a man clings to the body, attachment to the objects he sees is bound to follow. As long as there is attachment, man is sure to have unrest. So, in ancient times, in the Vedic age too, the ṛṣis strove to acquire learning in order to give up this attachment and this sense of “mine”. The ṛṣis of those days believed that the power of restraint is the chief mark of humility, and that humility is the very life of learning.