In plain words
In truth, you cannot fail to recognise what kind of need we have felt there is in Bhārata in these conditions. In every matter, what man ought to think of is service to society. Only when you practise service to society in thought, word and deed does your humanness fulfil its purpose. Because self-deceivers multiply who say they want peace and do deeds of unrest, human society grows polluted. Though they have eyes, they live as the blind. Though they have ears, they behave as the deaf. People today have minds and yet behave like madmen; whatever teaches them the vast divinity, that is the spiritual. We must never forget the Satya that spirituality is what gives a fine training, with discipline, to people who scramble on with ceaseless toil, endless anxieties, boundless hopes and senseless anguish.
Embodiments of Prema! We cannot satisfy the divinity within humanness by mere authority, or by means of wealth, or by means of strength. Only through Prema is there a way to satisfy it. Prema, Prema, Prema. Prema is the nature of God, which is Ānanda. It fills every man as well. Man must increase his effort to bring it forth and his effort to make it spring up within him. The whole world goes on living by Prema alone. Without Prema there is no world at all. We must recognise the Satya that this principle of Prema is the reflection of divinity.
Embodiments of Prema! Above all, we must also see the Satya that we have to make this divinity within humanness firm in ourselves in this way. Today man falls into bondage of many kinds. Craving for wealth, craving for a wife, craving for sons: these three cravings bind man and in many ways lead him astray into animality. The close kinship between animality and humanness is not this. Prema. That which makes all of them one: beasts, birds, men and demons. Only because we forget this principle of the Ātma, which is oneness, and let the principle of the body alone run riot, do we, though human, set out to behave just like beasts. This is not right.
Merely singing bhajans, crying ‘Bhakti, Bhakti, Bhakti’, is not Bhakti. Merely singing songs is not Bhakti. Only when we gain, through Prema, kinship with all do this Bhakti and prapatti take on their true meaning. We must spread and teach the Satya ‘The Lord of all beings’ in the form of practice. Merely propagating it is of no use. Merely preaching it is of no use. We must try to practise it, examine it and hold to it. Our Ānanda is not in the outside world. It lies right within us. God Himself is everything. In every task we do, He is the ground and support. We think the eyes are seeing. We think the ears are hearing. We think the mouth speaks. But what speaks is not the mouth.