In plain words
However many inquiries we make without knowing ourselves, we only become people who have wasted time, not people who have made their births worthwhile. We try to read the news in the papers that spreads from every corner of the world. We are ready only to hear the news in it: what person in the country, in what way, what strange things, what wondrous things, what sorrowful or joyful matters they will print. You dedicate your life to the news that comes from all sides, but you do not understand that what comes from within you is a nuisance. So this world itself is a newspaper. We have read this newspaper called the world. When the newspaper comes we read it from beginning to end, but no fool sets out to read, day after day, the very paper he has already read. So we have read this newspaper called the world. We should not hanker after reading this newspaper again every day. Today's newspaper is tomorrow's waste paper.
Birth again, death again, lying again in a mother's womb.
Dying again, being born again: if in this way we read again and again the newspaper we have already read, we are turning into fools who read waste paper. So we must refuse outright to read such waste paper, and set ourselves to read the taste paper called divinity. So, to turn their feelings towards God, Śaṅkara led his disciples too onto such a path, and in those days set many on the divine path of experiencing godhood. So you have been brought into this gathering in the faith that you who are young will first of all set your intellect right; that with pure feelings and sacred thoughts you will make good use of the chance that has come to you; that you will gain the sweet Ānanda that is divinity, and through it dedicate your lives to the whole of Bhārata; that you will stand as fitting examples to uplift your fellow men and restore Dharma, and pledge yourselves to raise up the culture of Bhārata once more.