In plain words
We must press down this Ahaṅkāra. We must make divinity arise within us. Only then will Śānti and happiness of every kind come to us in the world. So we must make the effort it takes to experience the Prema and the purity of God. For one who has attained Prema for God, there is nothing else whatever left to attain in the world. So we must become worthy of God's grace. A human life that has not become worthy of God's grace is no more than living as a beast. Man is scrambling after the pleasures of the senses. Between men who scramble like this after the pleasures of the senses and beasts, birds and animals, there is no difference at all. What use is learning to such a one, then? Food, sleep, fear and the rest are the same for men and beasts! ‘Among living beings, a human birth is hard to gain,’ they said. What on earth is so special in them, then, to say that a human birth is hard to gain! There is nothing hard to gain in it. This is not what is hard to gain. We must control the senses, offer an ideal life, cultivate virtues, enter into good conduct and live as an example. That alone is the real thing. The root cause of such an ideal life is the parents themselves. So mothers and fathers must shape themselves into people of great virtue. Today, wherever you look in the country, parents only grieve over their son's doings; they experience no joy. Foolish people! They only weep, ‘My sons are no good’; but who is the cause of it? They themselves! Had they brought them up the right way, these sons would not have taken to such things, would they! The parents put as much money as they ask into their hands, put cars into their hands as they wish, and give them the freedom to roam like dogs. If such sons are to mend, how will they mend? Impossible, impossible.
As wealth grows, man's virtue dwindles
When wealth increases, pride increases; when pride increases, vices grow without cease; when wealth wanes, pride wanes; when pride wanes, the vices cease, Vēmā!