In plain words
In the same way, we must earn money. The money so earned must be sacrificed. It must be put to good use, in charity or in good works.
Give up your bad qualities
From time immemorial our culture of Bhārata has been teaching a fine lesson. ‘Nakarmaṇā naprajayā dhanena tyāgenaike amṛtatvamānasuḥ.’ However many yajñas, yāgas and other rites you perform, however many children you have, however much you earn, it is in sacrifice that immortality lies. In sacrifice lies our Ānanda. In sacrifice lies our immortality. The Ānanda that is in sacrifice is in nothing else. What must be sacrificed? Must you give up your house? Your property and possessions? No, no. God is not asking you to sacrifice anything. Give up your bad qualities. God does not want your good qualities in the least. Offer your bad qualities to God. No one else will take your bad qualities. In the end, not even your parents will take them. ‘Our parents are full of Prema. Wife and children are full of Prema,’ you think. A great mistake. The greatest Prema of all is God's alone. Parents love you with some selfish aim in view: that the boy should get on, earn money in plenty and keep them in comfort. Wife and children too love you in the same way. But the only one who loves without any selfishness, without any self-interest, is God! To such a selfless God you must offer your bad qualities. I am not telling you to offer good qualities to God. When I was in the room, I was telling this truth to your Vice-Chancellor and to all of these. Here is a hundred-rupee note. This hundred-rupee note has become quite useless. A great deal of dirt has got on it. It is disgusting to look at. Nobody will accept it. But give that same useless hundred-rupee note to the Reserve Bank. They take it and hand you a good note.