In plain words
You yourselves can reflect on how mighty a power the Veda has. To this day, those who have written a commentary on the Veda or tried to change the words in the Veda are nowhere to be seen, not in this Bhārata alone but in the world too. It can be called Śabda Brahman. Yet the people of Bhārata today, who ought to follow this sacred authority of the Veda, practise the Dharma the Veda enjoins, think of themselves in the form of the Vedic religion, and take pride in being Bhāratīyas who belong to the Vedic religion, have unfortunately forgotten the culture of Bhārata, scorned the religion of Bhārata, rejected the temples, written off the holy places as old wives' tales and spread many kinds of misconceptions about them; and if even such Bhāratīyas are growing in the Bhārata of today, we can only call it truly a misfortune. To understand the Veda — not only for ordinary people: even great pandits who have studied the Vedas in full, fools who look at the dirty water lying in a pit by the roadside and imagine the water of the clouds is just like this, may grasp a little of a few rites the Veda enjoins and through that be speaking words that stain the sacred Vedas. The Vedic religion stands in a state beyond all praise and blame. Yet, just as a drop of rain fallen on the ground turns to vapour by the wind, when praise and blame fall on the field of our heart, the winds called the state of suṣupti blow in it, and so it also happens that this turns to vapour. The nature of the Veda is an evenness that bears all, embraces all and carries all across. Whatever substance is put into the digestive fire, it burns it to ash. This digestive fire does not burn to ash either the intestines or the muscles that lie in the digestive fire. In the same way the Veda, which brings all things to wear the form of ash that is evenness, never sets out in the least to belittle its own self. Taking it for the way of the world, we believe this is merely ordinary behaviour: this attempt of any fool whatever to throw some kind of question we can only call a great weakness that has grown among the people of Bhārata.