In plain words
Where people have no comforts, have fallen into many hardships and losses, have ruined their health and are at a time when they are utterly without support, it is most necessary to help them, to serve them and to stand by them as their fitting support. But before helping them with these services, we must set our own qualities right. First we must recognise what the morality and integrity of Bhārata are like. We must stay ready to sacrifice anything for the country. We must grasp that the country means not the soil but the people. We must regard the very service done to human beings as service to Mādhava. From ancient times too, taking as their basis the aphorism Lokāsamastā sukhino bhavantu, the ṛṣis, munis, elders and kings of those days went on taking part in service of this kind.
In supremely holy Bhārata forbearance is our beauty; shining brightest among all vows, the great practice of Satya alone is the hard tapas; if one asks what is the sweetest feeling in our land, what is more honoured than the feeling for the mother? The code of our land, which says honour is greater than life, they have ruined, and seeking out foreign codes they have given to the present a strange freedom, a drawn knife. Ah, what shall I say of the rule of Bhārata! As the elephant does not know its own strength, so have the people of Bhārata become today.
So, while calling themselves Bhāratīyas with such a holy and wondrous history, the Bhāratīyas of today are becoming people who cannot measure up in any of the matters spoken of above.
Through showy propaganda and preaching we merely think ourselves superior; but this showy preaching must stop. These talks learnt by heart will not change the world in the least. With feelings free of show and free of self we must take part in action. We must teach this, silence unselfish work, to those who practise it; but if, without practising, we sit before the microphones and talk as we please, we shall gain no victory.