In plain words
Every man must recognise his own divinity and take part in sacred deeds. What is falling in value today? The value of okra and ridge gourd has shot up. The value of firewood has shot up. The value of everything has risen. In one thing only has the value fallen. The value of man has fallen. What is the reason? Because these human values are not in him, the value has fallen. In this world cattle, birds and beasts, germs, worms, insects and the like, every object, have gone on carrying out their own duties and keeping their own values safe. But today the one who ruins his own value is man alone. He himself is unable to recognise what his value is. People ask what human values are. These values were born with man's very birth. Forgetting that, he has grasped an artificial shadow. Today, only after developing human values does his value become great.
What is creation? This creation is a kind of reflection of the will of Īśvara. This is what they called Prakṛti. Man arose to protect the divinity of this Prakṛti. He entered into humanness intending to share out all his powers, of body, mind and spirit, into these values, and through them to be redeemed himself. First of all man must try to protect his own values. For man, Prema is most important. For man, compassion is most important. Without compassion he is no man at all. Without Prema he is no man at all. Without Satya man has no life-breath. Without Dharma it is no svarūpa at all. So from time without beginning the Veda has gone on teaching, ‘Satyaṃ vada, dharmaṃ cara.’ Today Ashok Singhal said it: that all are pure brahmacārīs, and that the whole of Prasanthi Nilayam is pure in its ways and worthy in its ways. What does this brahmacarya mean? Is brahmacarya to stay unmarried? No. No. Brahmacarya means the mind that moves ceaselessly in Brahman. We must move ceaselessly in Brahman, at all times and in every state. The one whose mind moves in Brahman, he alone is a brahmacārī. This is the pāramārthika truth. But in the vyāvahārika truth too we must follow this. Our conduct must be proper. Our manners must be very sacred. Our words must be very precious. Only when he nourishes such good qualities can he become a brahmacārī in the vyāvahārika.