In plain words
So what students must learn first is this: the life of a word is Satya. If there is no life called Satya in our words, they are just bundles of water. This Satya we must live out as the good of the world. ‘Sarvaloka hite rataḥ’ means not seeking one's own welfare for oneself. We must wish for the welfare of the world as well. The learned of today wish for their own welfare and happiness, but they do not wish at all for the welfare of the world or the happiness of the world. Why do we need to seek the good of the world? We were born alone. Then we came to know mother, father, elder sisters, younger sisters, brothers: all of them. Then we came into a bond with society. Then a bond with the household formed. As soon as schooling began, we came to know many students and learned people. Only through knowing so many in this way are we able to keep our humanness. If we had not come to know these others, we would have lived on in a beast's state. So the root cause of our humanness is society. The relatives and friends we have come to know: all of them too are a root cause. To all of them too we must give back our gratitude as a fitting return. To give such gratitude is ‘sarvalokahite rataḥ’; to seek the good of all these worlds is gratitude. Once we have recognised this Satya, ‘sarvo jñānopasampannaḥ’: we can come to know well the Jñāna that belongs to the world. This is what they called ‘awareness is life’.
We must make the effort to come to know about everything. Knowing only about subjects makes this a narrow-minded, cramped life. This Jñāna is a great help in growing a broad humanness in that way. If we are to gain such Jñāna, what must we do? ‘Sarvo samudita guṇaiḥ’: every good quality must grow in us. But in the student of today good qualities are not seen at all. So what right have we to call ourselves students? The teachers of today too teach only how to make a living and how to earn, but no one teaches what life is. Teachers need not say how to make a living. This world itself teaches us that.