In plain words
If you listen, you must really listen, mustn't you! If you sit here and do not listen, what is the use? When you do not wish to listen, sit at home; that is just fine. This Rāsamaṇi Rāṇi has come here and is brooding over all her court affairs. Why come here to brood over court matters? Those who brood like this may not enter into my teachings,’ he said. ‘On top of that, the Rāṇi, who should be an example to everyone, she is showing the wrong way. This does not suit me,’ he said. Then Rāṇi Rāsamaṇi stood up. ‘Prabhujī! The fault is indeed mine. I was brooding over that very court matter. From now on I will think of nothing else. I will offer everything to you; forgive me,’ she begged. Today, in this modern age, many people go to talks and listen. ‘Aha! How good the talk is!’ they keep saying. If it is so good, why should you not eat it, now that you have heard it? What you hear, you must eat. What you eat, you must digest. That is, you must put it into practice. But this is turning into a disease of indigestion. Vālmīki went on describing this very thing beautifully in the Rāmāyaṇa. Rāma learned the 64 arts. Rāvaṇa too learned those very arts. What Rāvaṇa and Rāma studied was exactly the same. But Rāma went on putting into practice every single word of all He had studied. He went on making His own the words ‘Speak Satya, speak what is pleasing; do not speak a truth that is unpleasing’. It is not what I have said that is the truth. I am keeping the truth My father spoke. I am an ideal student. Wanting to prove Himself an ideal to His father, He went on showing it to His father, who lived by the words he himself had spoken. So Vālmīki portrayed Rāma as the sacred, ideal man. But Rāvaṇa he called ‘Fool!’ Why did he become a fool? He ate all this learning, but did not digest it. In him the disease of indigestion set in. So he was entering an unholy path. So he called him a fool. One who does not put into practice what he has studied can only be called a fool. Whoever puts it into practice, he alone is the true scholar. That alone is the right ornament of true education. Endowed with learning and humility. All learning must be put into practice in the right way.