In plain words
Setting it on the table, serving it and eating it is nididhyāsa. If you do not bring the cooked food to the dining hall, how can you eat it? You must cook. You must put it on the plate; it must reach the stomach. Then śravaṇa, manana and nididhyāsa, the three, become one. Only then does your body gain strength and contentment. If you want to live strong and contented, you simply must read. You simply must turn over in manana what you have read. You simply must put into practice what you have turned over in manana. Without practice, doing manana is of no use. Today bookish knowledge is growing too much. All this is turning into superficial knowledge. There is no use in this superficial knowledge. You must acquire practical knowledge. If not in everything, at least in one or two you must achieve it.
Jananī Janmabhūmiśca……
Students, embodiments of Prema! Teachers!
If teachers are to turn students into pure-hearted people, into pure and ideal citizens, they must develop pure feelings. The country's future rests on them as their very responsibility. They themselves will have to bear it. These students are the uplifters of the Bhārata to come. How can the students, uplifters of Bhārata, change this? First you must change, and then try to change the students. If you smoke cigarettes and tell a boy he must not smoke, will he listen? ‘Sir, if you give it up first, we will give it up,’ they will say. Besides, today's students in this modern age question everything then and there. You must take care that no question of any kind arises from them. Not only this: your conduct too must be good. Only when your behaviour is right will students follow it rightly. Only then will you have a goal worthy of being a guru. You must cultivate good habits. You must learn good words. You must never use harsh words at all. You must draw children close with Prema. You must give them good cheer and enthusiasm. Only when you give them such things will students turn into good citizens.