In plain words
Only when we honour our parents do we honour the world
For good or for ill, the young are mighty. But through bad company they are turning bad. They must join satsaṅga. Look now: young men set out from Hyderabad. For a week now, in one village after another, they have gone on serving in this way: rendering service, doing nagarasaṅkīrtana, the doctors holding examinations, giving the people food and drink. Seeing students like these, people of every kind will take part. The zest springs up in them: ‘The educated themselves are doing this work; let us do it too.’ Education does not mean being seen in a fine dress, pompous and full of Ahaṅkāra.
Education gives humility; from humility comes worthiness; from worthiness, wealth; from wealth, Dharma; and by that a man gains this world and the next.
Only then does respect come to us. If, because they are students, they put on suit and boots and behave as they please, people take them for egoists. That is not the worth of our education. Humility itself is the worth. Only then does fitting respect come. From the very beginning Bhārata has advanced greatly through humility of this kind alone. First of all, Humanity. I have spoken many times about the word HINDU. H-Humanity; when that Humanity has been developed, I-Individuality; then N-Nationality, D-Divinity, U-Unity. These five prāṇas are the chief principles of the people of Bhārata. Bhārata has had a sacred history such as this. Holding such sacredness within ourselves, why should we become slaves to others? We must set it on the good path. We must experience it in the proper way. We must pass it on to the many. Students like these today have taken a perverse path and are fostering nothing but contrary ideas.