In plain words
On three sides, the sea. I am one who has lived in a country with such bounds.
Niṣkāma karma, pure Bhakti, Advaita Jñāna: these three qualities are the mark of the people of Bhārata
What does Himācala mean? Hima means the pure. That is, it stays spotless. Its quality is coolness. It teaches Praśānti. So: purity, Praśānti, and acala, which means that which stays unmoving. Acala means that which is without movement. Unmoving, stainless, Praśānti: this is my nature. If these very qualities are missing, I am no man of Bhārata at all. In this Bhārata flow the Gaṅgā, the Yamunā, the Sarasvatī that is the principle of Jñāna, and all the rivers that are lesser limbs, the Godāvarī, Kṛṣṇā, Kāverī and Sindhu. In my sacred Bhārata the Gaṅgā, the Yamunā and the Sarasvatī go on flowing like veins of blood. They have not been left without meaning. The Gaṅgā: this is the sign of sacred niṣkāma karma. The Yamunā is the sign of sacred Bhakti. In the Gaṅgā there is a purity that is stainless and unmoving. This is karma-yoga. To do service without desire for the fruit, with a sacred feeling and with a broad heart that holds that Divinity itself is in all: this is the true mark of this karma. ‘Īśāvāsyam idaṃ sarvaṃ.’ The Yamunā is the one that has spread its influence with the principle of Prema, holding that the God who dwells in all is one alone. That is the power of Bhakti. That is the Bhakti-kāṇḍa. And then the Sarasvatī, which teaches Jñāna. Not worldly knowledge alone. It is what lights the unfading flame in the spiritual principle. This itself they called ‘advaita darśanaṃ jñānaṃ’. ‘Jñāna is that which has the vision of the Ātma,’ they said. In it there is no room at all for dualities such as pleasure and pain, sin and merit, good and bad. The stream of the Sarasvatī is the one joined with such a principle of Jñāna. We must keep to the outlook that says: ‘To practise niṣkāma karma, to worship with pure Bhakti, to recognise the sacred oneness: this is my first goal.’