In plain words
Everywhere, God makes radiant Jñāna shine. If God's light were not everywhere, we could not live even a moment. For this body made of the five elements to live in well-being, the power that is God's principle gives every kind of well-being. So we must not think of Ugādi as just a festival day. We must believe it to be God's day. We must believe it to be a day for the sake of the Highest.
All the festival days of the people of Bhārata carry a distinctive inner meaning. We give first place to outward things, make pāyasam and enjoy ourselves. We think this is what a festival day is. These festival days come about to make us remember God, to let us experience certain kinds of joy and to drive sorrows away. These festival days have come into being so that we may make Prajñāna, Vijñāna and Sujñāna blossom within us. Along with a form, God has granted man the power of intellect as well. He granted it so, but to the body He gave a short measure of life. We must put to good use this power of intellect that God has given, and experience its fruit, its joy. But man today misuses the power of intellect he has been given. We must set about offering the power God has given, not to our own selfish ends, but to others. We must strive to offer the power that is in the body, not to our own selfish ends, but to the world. We were born in society. We live in society. In society itself we come to our end. We cannot live even a moment apart from society. Every comfort, every joy, every convenience we receive from society alone. Having received so many kinds of pleasure and convenience, what gratitude do we show to society? To express gratitude is man's chief duty. This gratitude itself may also be called Bhakti. It is not only doing nāmasmaraṇa. Nāmasmaraṇa too is needed.
Śravaṇaṃ kīrtanaṃ viṣṇoḥ smaraṇaṃ pādasevanaṃ arcanaṃ vandanaṃ dāsyaṃ sakhyam ātmanivedanam.
Dāsyaṃ, snehaṃ, ātmanivedanaṃ: these are all signs of gratitude. Without this gratitude, man becomes no more than a beast living in the forest. So, that we may turn humanness into divinity and attain Godhood, this Ugādi keeps on warning us. Every year, He who dwells in all is the very form of the year, is He not! It is this year that we worship.