In plain words
You yourselves, who are delegates, did not keep the discipline laid down for you! How then will you set an example for others? Duty, Discipline, Devotion: these three are all needed by the workers. Devotion, Bhakti, may be there; Duty may be done. But without Discipline, without kramaśikṣaṇa, all of it comes to nothing at all. In the morning, when I came to meet the devotees, many did not keep the rules properly. They rose from their places to do namaskāra, pushed others and caused them trouble. Showing off, they came further and further forward. They did this even though they had been told not to leave their places.
You must conduct yourselves with discipline as your aim, and not only in the work of the organisations; in all the tasks of daily life too you must keep discipline well.
“Duty is God; Work is Worship,” I have been telling you for many years now. But all that happens is that you hear it with your ears; it is plain that you are not setting about taking it in with your heart. Whatever rules we have accepted so that the organisations may give service as they should, everyone must honour them with a clear vision, a steady heart and a selfless spirit. Without reviling or spurning anyone, without speaking slightingly of any religion, you must carry out your duties as they should be done. “All are one; Be alike to every one”: all are one and the same; hold the same regard for each person: that is the teaching you must follow in practice. Hatred of persons, hatred of organisations, hatred of religions: you must not fall prey to these in the least. You must firmly believe that the principle of the Ātma is one and the same in everyone. Man's brotherhood and God's fatherhood: accept these as the basis of all you do.
You must not rest content with the words “Brothers and sisters!” alone. If deeds to match them are not there as well, those words only waste time and add to Asatya; that is all. If you believe that the principle of the Ātma in all is one and the same, you become worthy to speak so. Our Vedas and Śāstras teach this very principle: “Īśvara, of all beings”, “All this is to be clothed by the Lord”, “Vāsudeva is all this”.
You long to receive the respect of others, and to accept gratitude and Prema from them. Well and good. But this is not one way traffic, a road that runs one way: you too must offer your Prema, gratitude and respect generously; you must give. You must take!
How we have put into practice the decisions the last All India Conference made, how far we have reached our ideals, what fruit we have gained: we must examine this at the conference and take the right steps. Without that, if all that happens year after year is coming and going, the only result is money spent.