In plain words
Instead, there is no use merely filling the head with the knowledge that sits in a cupboard in the library room. So we must fill the head with the knowledge in the cupboard, bring what is in the head down into our hands, and through the hands share it with society. People swagger before many, saying, ‘I am a great scholar, I am very intelligent.’ This is great madness.
Everyone is fighting for rights, but where is his responsibility? Rights and responsibilities, these two, must go together like left and right. Today, where there is responsibility, there is no right. Where there is a right, there is no responsibility. We must join these two, rights and responsibilities, as negative and positive. If we truly carry out our responsibilities properly, rights will come of themselves. If we want rights without carrying out our duty properly, they will never come. Carry out your duty well. That itself is the true qualification for your right.
Students! What we must above all know today is to recognise the truth that, along with worldly learning, the knowledge of the Ātma too is essential. We must keep safe, in keeping with the times, the ancient traditions and culture that have shone as eternal truths from our ancient times, protect them, and hold them to be true education. We must nourish our traditions and our culture. Today's students do not understand anything of what our culture is, or what our tradition means. It is our culture that crowns humanness. It is our culture that fosters the unity in society. It is our culture that shows the unity in diversity. To make one the feelings that are split and shattered, and to develop our community together: that is our culture. But such unity has today been wiped out. Where there is no unity, there enmity begins. Because of that enmity the whole of Bhārata is being broken and shattered into pieces.
The word is one. Satya is one. The heart is one. There are not two hearts. Many think hṛdaya means the physical heart. Hṛdaya is not the physical heart. Hṛ... daya: what is joined with daya is hṛdaya. That daya is Prema. That Prema is the hṛdaya. So when you are told to broaden the heart, it is not the physical Heart. If the Heart enlarges, it becomes a disease. So the heart means Prema. We must make this Prema broad. From the narrow feeling of ‘I and mine’ we must reach the goal of ‘we and ours’. This is the true breadth of heart.