In plain words
At our marriage time it was like this. Those were the good days. Those were sacred, divine, true times," and so they dwell on the past and delight in it. The young people of today, you see, keep making plans about the future. "After I finish my studies, after I am married, after I make a foreign tour, after I join a job": they go on building ever so many castles in the air. All the young think about the future and all the old about the past, and so both together forget the present. Forgetting this present is itself the root cause of all the turmoil in the world today. This is Present. Not ordinary present. This is omnipresent. It answers for all three times. The result of what has passed is in the present too. The future that is coming also rests on the present. What we ate is what we belch today. What we eat now is what we will belch tomorrow. So both what is to come and what has passed are in the present. If you are good in the present, your life in the future is divine and fresh. So you must tie on the sacred thread of resolve to carry out your duty in the present. If we do wrong in the present, that itself becomes the highway to the future. So, while you are doing it, do the work wholeheartedly. Duty is God. work is worship. We must dedicate our life and our learning to these two alone. If we keep thinking about what will come some day, what surety is there of what is to come? "Tomorrow, tomorrow," we say: is it true that we will be here till tomorrow? Yesterday has gone by. Give crores, and it will not come back. So past is past. Forget the past. Don't brood over the future. Live in the present. Be happy. Stay happy in the present, and tie on the sacred thread of resolve to carry out your duty.
We must give due gratitude to the parents who bore us, to those who brought us up, to the teachers who taught us, and to the one who took our hand in marriage. This is the chief mark of humanity. Today gratitude has turned into cruelty. People do harm to the very ones who did them good. They plan injury to the very ones who helped them. This is not humanity. We should try to help even those who have harmed us; how wrong it is, then, to harm one who has helped us!
To do good to one who did you harm, finding no fault in him: the one who does this is wise, O Sumati.
So it was said. So we must live in the divinity that does good even to those who have done harm. We must not take a narrow path with narrow feelings. Who are we? Bhāratīyas. All are Bhāratīyas. All are children of one father. We must recognise the oneness of humanity.