In plain words
Hardship and happiness must be seen in one way; plenty and want must not be looked at apart; fame and ill fame as one and the same form, to think so in the heart: that is the path of Bhakti.
Embodiments of Prema, students!
In this world good and bad, plenty and want, fame and ill fame: all these are birds that go in pairs. Without happiness there is no sorrow. Without sorrow happiness has no value. Happiness does not come from happiness. Happiness comes only from sorrow. In the same way plenty and want: that is, some day or other this poverty pursues the rich man. The poor man too can become rich some day or other. Today a man may be famous; tomorrow he may meet with ill fame. But to look on this fame and ill fame, hardship and happiness, riches and wealth as equal, and to reach the state of equal-mindedness: that is man's chief distinction.
Only he who has looked on happiness and sorrow, hardship and happiness as equal and has lived through them knows the value of a true human life. Truly, to men who have had no sorrow at all, the very value of happiness is unknown. If you are to recognise the value of happiness, you must without fail go through sorrow.
Hardship and happiness both are bound together; to tear them apart is beyond anyone's power; happiness on its own we can see nowhere; when hardship bears fruit, that, they say, is happiness.
For everyone to understand so deep a feeling and act on it is very hard. If there were no day at all, night would have no value. If there were no night at all, the day would have no value. But man, unable to recognise this truth, hopes that he should always be happy.