In plain words
All that is wished for, like the kalpataru, there is one God who graciously grants; since the human birth, so hard to win, has come to you, to reach Him is your highest goal.
Boys and girls! Future citizens of Bhārata! Mother Bharata is waiting for you. Do you not see the streams of tears that Mother Bharata is shedding from her eyes, eyes like the petals of the water lily! Do you not hear her lament! Boys and girls! Open your eyes and try to recognise what the cause of that lament is, what the cause is of the streams of tears she sheds. For what, for whom is she shedding these tears? Mother Bharata sheds streams of tears, seeing the people of Bhārata, her own children, quarrelling with one another. Mother Bharata laments because one man, seeing another rise, is envious of him. Mother Bharata sheds tears, seeing the people of Bhārata, her darling children, going to ruin as they give room to selfishness, to Ahaṅkāra and to narrow feelings. Unfortunately some selfish people are wrestling over caste loyalties. Through religious factions they are hurling deadly weapons. Selfishness and narrow feelings are touching the sky. Want of character is climbing to the topmost twig. Discipline does not meet the eye at all. Mother Bharata's hands are bound with the bonds of disunity. You are the great heroes who will free Mother Bharata from the grip of these venomous serpents. You are the ones who will recognise the cause, act on it and wipe away Mother Bharata's tears. But because people who recognise the country's advancement and the welfare of society have become scarce today, there is some delay in the effort to spread such teachings among us and to satisfy the nature and the heart of our Mother Bharata. Today self-confidence has sunk to the bottom. Love of the country and faith in the country, set firm over generations, are very far from reaching the hearts of students. The field of education that teaches the moral, the dhārmic and the spiritual, and shapes children's minds to be cheerful and useful, has declined today.
Boys and girls! This is no time to sleep. ‘Arise, awake, and, finding the great ones, learn.’ Students must wake from the sleep of Ajñāna, Ahaṅkāra and selfishness, from the sleep of heedlessness, and take a vow to seek the welfare of Mother Bharata. Though Mother Bharata's darling children number thousands, lakhs and crores, it is a great sorrow that people who satisfy their mother's heart have become scarce. Lava and Kuśa, the sons of Rāma, recognised their mother's grief and kept pleading with her in many ways. ‘Mother! Why do you fill your eyes with tears for nothing, Mother! We are hero sons greater than Śrī Rāma. If you ask, we can bring you a mountain of gold, Mother! Unless you tell us, we will not let go of your feet. What use is the life of sons who cannot end their mother's sorrow, Mother!’ they asked. So you must install in your hearts the picture of the boys Lava and Kuśa, sons of the Earth-born, who, as their mother bade them, longed so eagerly to end her grief. When even the sons of the Earth-born made so many kinds of effort to end their mother's sorrow, it is very sad that boys and girls, the children of Mother Earth, make not the slightest effort to end the sorrows of their own mother. In the land of Bharata every atom is holy. The time that has come to us is supremely holy. To live with calm, practising Dharma and spreading Prema: that is the chief duty of humanness today.
There is no mightier power than unity. Today unity is seen shattered in many ways. Divine tasks that cannot be achieved by one alone can be achieved by all together. So, recognising the welfare of society, we must take a fitting vow to solve these problems by showing forth the form of the whole and not of the one alone. A life without fellowship and unity goes merely to waste. The true match for this unity and harmony is the human body itself. The human body has been created with many limbs. Whatever work is allotted to each limb, that limb does in the proper way. Not only do they carry out their own duties; they also treat the other limbs with harmony and unity. Precisely because each keeps following the other, this principle of the body has been offering many kinds of ideals in this life. The moment the mind resolves, “I must go to such and such a place,” the legs walk. The moment you resolve in your mind, “I must do such and such a task,” the hands enter into that task. The moment the mind resolves, “I must see such and such a person,” the eyes search about for that person. So in this way all the limbs and all the senses follow the mind.
Next we must enquire into what kind of conduct the mind follows. Whatever limb of this body meets with harm, the mind grieves greatly.