In plain words
Without worshipping the Lotus-eyed Lord again and again, is it fitting to revile others? Without hearing with your ears the praises of Viṣṇu, is praising others not delusion for you? Without eagerly offering worship to Him who rests on Śeṣa, is it noble to extol others? Without meditating upon Dāmodara, is it right to reckon up the faults of others? If on Śrī Ramā's Lord, at all times, in the citta, you dwell in thought, will not purity of citta come! What else than this shall I make known to you, members of this assembly, gentle and counted among the virtuous?
Embodiments of the divine Ātma! Men in the world are learning many skills; they are creating many machines; they are earning boundless knowledge. Yet the Śānti they ought to find is not to be had. Day by day many are swept along in the river of worldly life and drift very far from Śānti. Even when divine humanness has been granted, it is not man's duty to waste a divine life without recognising the path of Satya. Merely by learning skills, merely by creating machines, merely by strutting about as men of wisdom, people cannot make known the secret of their own humanness. These skills are not the measure by which the secret of creation is recognised. The secret which, once recognised, brings every secret into view and sends many tangles far away, the learning which, once learnt, makes every learning understood: such a divine learning is one and one only! A man who sets out to cut down a tree can fell it only when he cuts at the root; if he goes on splitting the leaves and lopping the branches, the tree will never die.
The treasure of nectar that the ṛṣis won by many kinds of effort and handed down to us is Ātma-vidyā. Foreigners recognised this secret and, with a thousand tongues, have been praising as ideal Bhārata's way of winning the wealth of this world and of the next.