In plain words
Some put it to good use. Reading and writing before that light, they make good use of time. Some misuse that light. I am putting it to good use’, so he spoke with firm faith. Meanwhile a crowd of paṇḍitas gathered. ‘We have read so many Śāstras and Vedas, but we cannot say it that way. One who knows nothing presses it home so plainly and firmly. Where did this courage come from?’ the paṇḍitas wondered. For this courage, what matters is not scholarship but faith of the heart! Whatever anyone says, we must not let our faith waver. Students must have such firm faith. The paṇḍitas went to the king. ‘This boy is doing our scholarship a great insult. However much learning we have studied, we cannot say that we ourselves are God. A fool with no knowledge of letters says that he himself is God. How can this be? He must be either mad or full of Ahaṅkāra. This must be put down somehow’, they complained.
Though a good man stays quiet and keeps to himself, the wicked man, for no reason, unable to bear him, makes doing harm his art; though the saris be worth a hundred coins and lie in the box, what does the moth gain that gets in and gnaws them to tatters.....
Keep a hundred-rupee Benares sari, or keep a cloth for wiping the bathroom: to gnaw is the moth's nature. It does not consider that this one is worth so much and that one is not worth so much. In the same way, criticising others belongs to the white ant breed. They set about criticising anyone at all.