In plain words
They can enjoy this whenever they like. Whenever they like, they can snatch it back. So we must not labour at work like this at all. Today's students must stand wholly independent and try to recognise the truth of what svecchā means. What is svecchā? Sva + icchā: svecchā. Sva is the Ātma; its icchā itself is svecchā. That is why we must follow the will of the Ātma. We must follow our conscience. But today people do not understand svecchā in this way. All of today's students think that svecchā means roaming the bazaars as they please, spending as they please, talking however they like: all this they take to be svecchā. So you must control your words. You must control your very life. If you do so, you will have sustained the world; we will have grown. So: start early, drive slowly, reach safely. At this very age students must try to practise this sacred svecchā. We need not follow anyone. Follow the principle of your own Ātma. That itself is your svecchā; you must not become dependent on others. There is a small story about this. In Dhānāpura there lived a king. After the great king died, his son became the great king. The young man, just come of age, fell into many worries. Whom should I trust? Whose advice should I take? Whom should I heed? How am I to rule the kingdom? He went on pondering this in many ways. I cannot tell who is good and who is bad. From grandfathers and great-grandfathers down to my father, they won great renown. How am I to earn such honour? So he would keep pondering. But one day, as he sat in the palace, many people, old men, boys, women and men, many of them, were going along the road in crowds upon crowds. He made inquiries. ‘What is this? Where are they going in these crowds?’ he asked. Then they told him. ‘My lord! Some great soul has come and is outside the town. He is giving many kinds of teaching on the Ātma.