In plain words
But this fellow does not become a student there; he becomes the manager. He tries to sit in an AC room. When he sits in the AC room, all his wits go out of him like gas. There is no use at all. You must work hard. ‘Karmaṇyeva adhikāraste.’ To action I have a right. I must perform action. You must make up your mind to bend your back and work. Today none of our students bends his back and works. Dressing neatly, strolling about in fine style, getting work done by others: this is not the mark of true management at all.
The best is the one who puts into practice what he knows; the worst is the one who does not
This is not what students should do. We must do it and show them. Only then is it an ideal. Only then will everyone be drawn to our children. They say, somehow, better than those outside; but we must not go along with better like that. The word Better must not come; you must come out best. That is just why it was said, ‘There is no greater fool than one who knows and does not do.’ The one who puts into practice what he knows is the best man. The one who does not put into practice what he knows is the worst man. For this, two examples. Bhīṣmācārya and Vibhīṣaṇa. It was said that Vibhīṣaṇa was nobler than Bhīṣmācārya. ‘What is this! Bhīṣma is a great jñānī, is he not; he is Gāṅgeya, is he not; no one surpassed him in sacrifice, did they! All his life long he renounced, did he not! No one else knows the arts of weapons as he did. How is Vibhīṣaṇa, born a rākṣasa, greater than so great a man?’ so they argue. True, Bhīṣma is great! A great jñānī indeed! A great Vedāntin! A man of great eminence who had learnt every art of weapons and missiles! But when the Pāṇḍavas and Draupadī were being dishonoured in the great court of the Kauravas, he became a weakling, unable to say that it was wrong and check that wickedness. When he knew it was wrong, why should he not try to stop it? Misplaced attachment was the reason. He gave in for the sake of the attachment: ‘I am in the service of the Kauravas, after all!’ But Vibhīṣaṇa was not like that.