In plain words
We must understand well the oneness of these two, nation and morality. Only then is it possible to recognise true humanness. We go on calling ourselves man, man. To say I am a man is not the whole of it. Mark this well. To think I am a man is half the truth. What is the other half-truth? I am not an animal. I am a man, not an animal: only when the two come together do you truly become a man. Thinking I am a man, a man, one may behave like an animal. So beside it: I am not an animal. Only when he takes these two together does he become a complete man. For each one to think I am a man is a half-truth. I am a man. I am not an animal: only when these two are joined is there oneness. Just as current is of use when negative and positive come together, so these two must be made one. Today everyone goes about saying I am a man, I am a man, but they behave like animals. That is not good. For an animal to behave like an animal is natural. Man must not behave like an animal. This is what we must learn. Mā-na-va: three syllables. Mā means Ajñāna. Na means without; va means conducting oneself. This is true humanness. Mā nava: mā means not. Nava means new. I am not new. I am always old. How? As one closely bound to God, I am old. Very old. We say we are old, and we are turning foul. That is not right. We are old. We are those joined to God by close ties of kinship.
If we grow such a feeling, qualities such as jealousy, envy and pomp come up. Even if they come, we must make the effort needed to check them. A car goes along at great speed. Where it is needed, you must apply the brake. If you do not apply the brake, an accident happens. In just the same way, anger comes. Hatred comes. Envy comes. But you must restrain it. That alone befits humanness. He who has a mind is a man. You see! An animal has no mind. Man has come from the mind itself. Without the mind there is no man. So what is man? The mind itself. What is the mind? Man himself. The mind is nothing but saṅkalpas and vikalpas. The fruit of the saṅkalpas is actions. The good and bad of our actions are the joys and sorrows of our life. You see! So from where do all our hardships and joys come? From our actions. It is just the fruit that comes from actions. Our conduct must be good. Only when our conduct is good will our life be good. To keep this conduct in the right way, we need morality. They said, nata yiti nītiḥ. Nata means this: nīti is what is gained from humanness. We must not be a nation without this morality.
We must nourish the human race in the right way.