In plain words
Do you conduct yourselves as your parents hope? You wear the clothes your parents have stitched for you, but you do not ask how hard they had to toil for you to have these clothes. Tomorrow you too will grow up. Then, if your own children cause you pain, will you be able to bear it? Whatever you do today, you will experience its result in the future. The good deed you do today is what will give you a good result in the future. If you do a bad deed and hope for a good result, how will you get it? So do not cause your parents the slightest pain. Strive as far as you can to make them happy. Only then will your birth have served its purpose. What were you born into this world for? To eat and roam about? To enjoy worldly pleasures? Whether you enjoy them or not, they do not last. Above all, make your parents happy. Only then will you be called true sons.
Only those who strive to shape their children into people of good character are true parents. Only through such parents do children grow into fine citizens and rise to any height. Parents today, the moment a son is born to them, hand out sweets to their relatives and friends and hold a celebration. This is a great mistake. The day their son wins a good name in society, that is the day they should celebrate. Is their son walking the right path, is he honouring society, is he receiving honour from society... these are the things parents must watch with care. In this, Easwaramma set a great example. If anyone came to the house, “Namaskāram! Please come in, do sit down”: this was how she taught the children to welcome them with Prema. But such courtesy and respect are not to be seen in students; they pursue high studies and earn plenty of money. But what use is it? Earning money is no greatness; even a beggar earns. You must honour the guests who come to the house and greet them with Prema. You cannot always oblige, but you can speak always obligingly.