In plain words
Because of this, the hearts of those who listen do not experience oneness or savour Ānanda. There is no chance for everyone to join in, sing as one and rejoice. Sung off key, in a voice that is not sweet, it unsettles hearts. To the singer himself it may well seem a rāga. But to those who listen it seems nothing but a disease. Rather than this, if they kept quiet, that itself would be a great kindness. You must sing so that the heart overflows. If they take up whatever songs they like and get through them dully, flatly, with ugly feelings, how can that be bhajan?
People say that the young look on spiritual feeling with hostility; but if they come to have faith in it, they too will experience boundless Ānanda. Society will find happiness and Śānti. But if we preach without practising, the young will lose their trust in it. In the Kṛta age, yoga, japa and tapas were the chief sādhanas. In the Dvāpara age, the paths of direct realisation; the dharma of the Kali age is nāmasmaraṇa. Saṅkīrtana must go on in every street and quarter. Through the influence of Western civilisation, attitudes that mock temples and holy bathing places are growing more and more. But believers must neither sink nor yield nor swell at blame and praise; they must take up this work, this sādhana so dear to Swami, and carry it out.