In plain words
Faith in what is worth trusting keeps dwindling. For want of this faith man meets with failure in everything in his daily life.
No one can escape the noose of attachment
Here is a small example of this. Long ago, in the days at Shirdi, there was a student named Śivadās. He had passed his B.A. Then he tried hard to go on to the LL.B. In those days lawyers were held in very great respect. People believed that ‘law’ sprang from them alone. That is why people honoured them so much. People believed that every word they spoke was Satya, in keeping with Dharma, and just. Today's lawyers are all turning into liars. Those who put their trust in these lawyers lose their very lives. That is why someone said, “Even one who has gone to Yamadharmarāja might come back again, but one who has gone to a lawyer cannot come back.” Today compassion, Dharma, justice and morality have all sunk low. Money alone counts. Status alone counts. They cannot bring themselves to give any importance to morality and honesty. This Śivadās sat for the LL.B. examination. A good friend of his lived in Bagalkot. That one and this one both entered for the examination. Śivadās had great faith in Bābā. He had to go to Bombay to write the examination. First, Śivadās set out for Shirdi. He reached Shirdi. He bowed to Bābā. In great distress, shedding streams of tears: ‘Bābā! You must protect me,’ he said. Bābā said, ‘Why are you grieving? Do not be afraid. Bow once, with complete faith. I will look after it.’ In the Bhagavad Gītā too, Arjuna, sunk in delusions of many kinds, shrank to some extent from fighting, out of the delusion of ‘my kinsmen, my friends’. Attachment and the sense of ‘mine’ kept pushing this Arjuna back. Kṛṣṇa spoke. He taught at great length. This attachment is a mighty noose.