In plain words
We must not earn such a bad name. We must respect elders. We must respect teachers. We must love our mother and father. This is what we must learn. We must install such sacred feelings in our heart. Only then will the greatness of our learning and the sanctity of our institution enter us fully. A student must be a student, and only that. Life is a mansion of four storeys. Brahmacarya. Gṛhastha, vānaprastha, sannyāsa. This is the four-storeyed mansion. In it brahmacarya, the student stage, is like the foundation. If this foundation is firm, the remaining three storeys stand firm. But if this foundation shakes, the three storeys come crashing down. So if you are to be an ideal householder in the householder's life, there must be a good foundation in the student stage. You must earn a good name. You must win a good name outside as well. A father's joy in his son does not mean handing out sugar as soon as the son is born.
A father's joy in his son is not born the moment the son is born. When people see that son and praise him, on that day the father wins joy in his son.
When everyone says, "Your son is good, he is good," that father feels joy in his son. Sons must give their parents such joy. That is why parents hope for sons. They wish them to earn a sacred name and make them happy in their old age. They do not wish that a son should merely be born and that be enough. Parents of every kind have Prema for their son. There are wicked sons, but there are no wicked parents. You must earn a name true to its meaning, as a son who gives such parents the zeal and encouragement they deserve. Little talk, great ease. In the sannyāsa āśrama, great souls kept silence, went into the forest, stilled these three, seeing, eating and speaking, and so went on developing that divine power. That is why they said, "The Brahman in silence alone is Brahman." They close their eyes and sit in dhyāna. When you sit in dhyāna, how must you be? You must be silent. In that silence alone the sound of God's footsteps is heard.