In plain words
However old he grows, there is still the attachment, still the keeping together. By these bonds he binds himself. However long it goes on, they sit guarding the house. However badly the children treat him, he will not let go of this bond. Is this humanness? Man lacks the sacrifice that cattle, birds and beasts have! How long is this duty to last? Wherever they are, wish them well, but you must leave them to their own strength. That is what is called ‘freedom’. ‘Freedom’ does not mean roaming the streets as you please. It does not mean spending as you please. Behave as a man. Protect the honour of your parents. Uphold the honour of your home. Keep these three in view, and then go wherever your freedom takes you!
Sankrānti teaches the way from humanness to divinity
‘The end of wisdom is freedom,’ it is said. Today children too say the same: ‘We want freedom.’ What is this freedom? Is wandering about day and night as you please freedom? No, no. Knowledge of the Ātma, the Ānanda of the Ātma, mastery of oneself, contentment in the Ātma: this is freedom. Failing to understand the meaning of this freedom, they behave as the mind pleases, forget their humanness and foster only the nature of the monkey. This Sankrānti has been teaching the way that leads from humanness to divinity. Take the sugarcane. The sugarcane is full of bends. It has many knots, but the sweetness within it never changes. Life is a stick of sugarcane. Many changes of this kind may come: hardships, losses, sorrows, worries. However many changes come, there must be no change within your divinity. It must remain one and the same. It is only when many hardships and losses come in life that it gives divine and eternal Ānanda.
Will the cane give you jaggery if you only call and ask, unless you crush it to pulp and draw out the juice!