In plain words
The great men who make unity into multiplicity are many. That is our greatness today. To recognise the unity in the multiplicity is goodness.
What must be achieved is goodness, not greatness
What is the difference between goodness and greatness? To see Divinity in every man is goodness. To recognise humanness in God is greatness. ‘Wherever you seek Him, there the Bearer of the discus is,’ said Prahlāda. That is goodness. The one who said otherwise, that wherever you search in the universe there is only humanness and no Divinity, was Hiraṇyakaśipu. This is greatness. That is, Hiraṇyakaśipu went on proving humanness even in God. So he became great. The one who showed Divinity in every man was Prahlāda. That is why he became good. So what must we achieve in the world today? Not greatness: we must achieve goodness. To wish that my son must become great, a great officer, a great scholar, a great rich man, is quite wrong. My son must become good, earn a good name, enjoy a good reputation, bring a good name to society, win a good name in society. The joy there is in goodness, the greatness there is in it: that is the aim of Prema. You all know that in the Rāmāyaṇa, as many kinds of learning as Rāma learnt, Rāvaṇa too learnt them all. But he could not make that learning worthwhile, Rāvaṇa. He could not digest that learning. So all that learning turned into a disease of indigestion. That is why he went on living out every bad quality. All the learning Rāma acquired he set within Satya. He dedicated it to good deeds. He himself digested the good qualities. That is why he won the world's acclaim. So they said, ‘Rāmo vigrahavān dharmaḥ’. Rāma is the one who attained the very form of Dharma. So every word, every task, every action must be set on the good path. The students of today, boys and girls alike, must enter the sacred path. We must win the esteem of society. ‘Sarvaloka-hite rataḥ’, they said.