In plain words
Only then did Ānanda grow in him day by day.
Unable to bear that Ānanda, he embraced Ānanda, the son of his mother's younger sister, who was right beside him: “Ānanda! I cannot bear this Ānanda. Now I am ready for the state of nirvāṇa,” he said. Hearing these words, Ānanda shed tears. Seeing it, the Buddha: “Foolish one! When I am enjoying Ānanda, why are you grieving over it?” he said. Man strives after joy in worldly things. The Buddha was one who strove after Ānanda in the things of God. That alone is the Ānanda that is eternal and true. That alone is immortality.
You must suffer the punishment for the wrong you have done
Man today, doing what ought not to be done, is moving away from immortality. More than that, he asks that the wrongs he has done be forgiven. You must not ask to have your wrongs forgiven. You must, without fail, suffer the punishment for the wrong you have done. Only then is the fault removed. For the wrong he did, a thief serves a jail sentence, and only after the sentence is over is he released.
In the same way, man is released only when he has atoned for his faults. If he wants to be released, he must suffer the punishment that fits the fault he committed, and see that he does not commit that fault again. Man commits sin, but he does not count it as sin. He thinks it is natural to man. “For the sake of a rupee, on the sly, they eat any filth that comes their way! Crying ‘Raṅga! Liṅga!’, they make sham bows and swindle the people!”
Regard God alone as your guru
Embodiments of Prema! Today is Guru Pūrṇimā. Who is a guru? Not one who speaks a mantra into your ear and pulls money out of your hand. “Gukāro guṇātītaḥ rukāro rūpavarjitaḥ”: you must regard as your guru the principle that is beyond the guṇas and without form. A guru is needed to make you recognise the principle that is beyond the guṇas.