In plain words
We must understand the value of Bhāratīya culture. Even if there is no time to understand it, even if there is no liking for it, we must not try to give it perverse meanings. Still less must we step forward to make these a laughing-stock. We must try to honour them. We must learn gratitude. But without giving thanks for the results we have gained, we are turning cruel. Whatever feelings the young men of today utter, they must make a fitting effort to put those feelings into practice. To speak only in words and not use them in deeds: this is a principle contrary to humanness. So, with whatever Bhakti and śraddhā you listen to such discourses with all your heart, you must keep those discourses in practice all your life, enjoy them yourselves, and try to give them to others. Even if only some ten such students and young men are found who are pure, it is enough: we can carry the message through the whole world. Before spreading it, first of all practise. Observe. Experience. Enjoy. Then share it with others. You must take the vow to hold this as our duty. We must recognise that carrying out our duty is our chief Dharma.
Time is rushing away, very fast, like a raging gale. The span of life is melting away moment by moment like a block of ice. Even before he recognises his duty, man leaves his body. What is the fruit of man's being born? For what were you born? For food, sleep and the like? For fear, mating and the like? No, no.
Food, sleep, fear and mating: these are common to men and beasts; Jñāna is the special excellence of men; empty of Jñāna, they are equal to beasts.
Without such Jñāna one is equal to a beast; we may call him nothing but a two-legged beast. Food, sleep, fear and mating are there for mere beasts, birds and animals too. Should humanness come to experience a result like this? No. No. We must live an ideal life. We must pass it on. And in this, among students, this must be held to be the chief mark. They alone are the leaders of the future. So they must make a fitting effort to shape their feelings to be tender, pure, stainless and selfless. In the hope that you will make a fitting effort to practise this sacred culture as you spread it, and to delight in it, and with My blessing, I end.