In plain words
This is not right. From birth until death, a human being must live as a human being. Humanness is that which is united with divinity. Today you are students. Later you will enter the householder's stage of life. What is the use if you spend your childhood and your youth in play and in earning money, and even in old age, not thinking of Murahari, pine away in unrest, saying, ‘That is lacking, this is lacking’? From this very moment you must make due enquiry and conduct yourselves with care.
Vinay, a young man, has been praying that I should teach what the duty of the young is. The young must stay young. They must never become old. The moment we spoil the strength of our senses, that very moment we become old. We must guard that ‘energy’. Now, seeing Me, what age would anyone take Me to be? This body is 81 years old. But do I look that way? My body has no illness of any kind. When a little boy fell on Me, My hip bone broke. The doctors did an operation. At home I go on walking quite normally. But when I come out, the doctors: ‘Swami! When You move about among the people, do not go about alone. Walk holding on to someone,’ they advised. I must follow their advice too. So, for their satisfaction, I walk holding on to someone. ‘Don't hold Me, don't hold Me,’ I keep telling the children too. No one knows. In this way I conduct Myself in every matter with a very subtle eye. No one at all understands My nature. Fever, headache, a cold, anything of that kind: I have never had them. I am always healthy. Not only healthy, I am wealthy too. I watch every matter closely. Some of the ṛtviks too sit here and talk. I go on hearing all of it too. Good or bad, both are the same to Me. For Me, what is called bad does not appear at all. To Me everything is good. Today we may eat a fine meal of the five kinds of delicacies and sweet rice. But how long does it stay good? By the next morning it turns into something else. So good and bad, both of them, are only changes in one and the same substance, brought about by difference of time (a change of time)! So we must recognise every matter with care.
In the Mahābhārata war, however hard Duryodhana, Duśśāsana and the rest tried, they could not defeat the Pāṇḍavas. The reason? Kṛṣṇa was on the side of the Pāṇḍavas. One day during the war, noticing that Abhimanyu was alone at home, Droṇa laid out the lotus array and called him to battle. Abhimanyu's father Arjuna and his uncle Kṛṣṇa had gone to fight on the other side. Abhimanyu went to his mother Subhadrā and asked her to give him leave to enter the lotus array. Then she: “My son! To break the lotus array is no ordinary matter. This is not an auspicious time to enter it.