In plain words
Unless you step forward to do the work, labouring and bearing hardship, the country will decline very soon.
In the workshop called the universe, the individual is a tool. Though he is only a pin or a small nut in this big machine, every person must take care to carry out the duty that falls to his lot well, without deceit. If you hang back, you yourself have brought about your own fall! You have done harm to the country!
The culture of Bhārata rests on the principle of Sohaṃ; not on the principle of sloth! If you want true rest, you must do karma without ceasing. That itself is true rest! With idleness, rust grows, and that is all. If you do not make the body toil, sleep will not come; the man who has no sleep takes his share of petty mischief; he keeps on making crazy, crazy plans. You who are young must labour well; each of you must recognise your own duties towards your own homes, your villages, society and the country, and lead lives that set an ideal.
The knowers of the Veda in ancient times bore many hardships; practising good deeds and good conduct, immersed in the thought of the Lord of all, they set out to make their fellow men happy. The devices and the precepts that the learning of today teaches do not bring Śānti and security into daily life. The education of those days was called svādhyāya. Sva - for oneself, adhyayanam = study; that is to say, to attain the supreme puruṣārtha, to reach Brahman: that itself is the supreme goal. Today a great disbelief in this attainment has grown, and the eye has come to rest on self-interest, fame and money. For the knowers of the Veda, the aim of their duty and the attainment of the Ātma were one and the same!
The knowers of the Veda divided the span of human life into three parts called Vasu, Rudra and Āditya.
In the first part he is steadfast in karma; then comes the stage of upāsana: intent on svādhyāya and sādhana, he follows the principle of Prema, experiences it and rejoices. In the third part, the Āditya part, he is steadfast in Jñāna and attains the supreme state. The presiding deity of the Āditya part is Bhāratī; the presiding deity of the Rudra part is Sarasvatī; and of the Vasu part the goddess Iḍā herself is the presiding power.
In this way, to turn life itself into one great pilgrimage along the paths of karma, Bhakti and Jñāna, and so to fulfil it, is the ideal of the people of Bhārata. The people of Bhārata in those days gave up everything and attained divine experiences beyond the reach of speech and mind. Today the desire of the morning does not last till noon; the desire that came at noon does not last till evening. If what you wished for comes about, Bhakti! If the desire is shattered, disbelief! Whether the aim is fulfilled or not fulfilled, the feeling of Bhakti must stay in one and the same state. That alone is ananya Bhakti, niścala Bhakti, the Bhakti that grants sāyujya: you must make it firm in yourselves that the fruit lies in that very failure.