In plain words
He alone who upholds the name is the true son
Today there is one thing every student must recognise. “I have learned many kinds of knowledge from society, and made great progress. In return for that, what am I giving to society?” he must ask himself. He who takes help from society and plans harm to society is ungrateful. You must remain grateful all your life to those from whom you learned what is good. Only then will the education you have received bear fruit. You were born in society, you grew up in society, you live in society.
So you must honour society. You must show gratitude to society. Like Abhimanyu, you must bring good fame to your lineage. As he was setting out for battle, his mother Subhadrā: “My son! Your father Arjuna and your uncle Kṛṣṇa are not at home. Your wife is with child. In such a situation it is not good for you to go to battle,” she pleaded with him, ever so earnestly. But what did Abhimanyu say?
Fearless, upon the Kuru heroes, that herd of elephants, like the king of beasts, I would hew them down, loosing an unbroken, towering mass of divine great weapons in array: ‘Win and come back, my son! May good befall you!’ Not to say this, and in this way, crying ‘Do not go, do not go’, to hold me back so fiercely: is that right for you?
“Mother! You ought to bless me to tear the enemy apart in battle and come back victorious; instead, to stand in my way like this and tell me not to go is not right,” he said. Then Subhadrā, recognising her duty as a mother: “My son! Since you were born a son, to uphold the family's honour and keep the fame of the lineage standing: that alone matters for you,” she said, and blessed him and sent him off. In this modern age, are there mothers who give their children good counsel like this? Parents today hand out sweets to relatives and friends the moment a son is born. But parents in former days did not do so; they celebrated the festival of his birth on the very day their son won a good name in society.