In plain words
The people of Bhārata keep such nectar-filled Sanskrit … right beside them and make no effort to enjoy it. Is there any misfortune other than …?' he lamented.
Max Müller carried on much research into the power of this very language. Max Müller, who wrote a commentary on the Ṛgveda, after finishing the Ṛgveda, himself … reached his own country and wrote in Sanskrit, naming his university and his degree. 'Śarmaṇyadeśa jātena' (born … Germany) gotīrtha puravāsinaḥ': that is, he made his name known in the Sanskrit language as one who had studied at Oxford university. While foreigners and learned people give this Sanskrit language … value, it is a matter of great sorrow that the people of Bhārata do not value it.
The whole of our culture arose from this Sanskrit itself. Saṃskṛti means that which makes … holy. It is that which seeks the welfare of the country. It is that which aims at the … level of the individual and of society. What refines is culture. We do not eat the grain in the state in which it ripened. We separate this grain from the straw, separate the husk, … that rice, and only then do we set about eating it. This itself is making culture. Culture is separating … faults and fostering virtues. Removal of faults, gaining of virtues: culture. Culture is … putting away the bad qualities, bad thoughts and bad conduct in us and fostering good qualities, good conduct and good feelings.
In Sanskrit the word Ātma has the meanings 'I' and 'oneself'. Wherever this … 'oneself' and 'I' are, there deep attachment begins. This is what they called ātmābhimāna. When one says 'I' over small matters, one's hand falls on one's chest. When one says 'I' …, it does not belong to the body. It belongs to the Ātma. When one says, 'Whatever danger…, whatever hardships, I am not the least afraid,' self-confidence … so its inner sense is: I take no account of these at all. But unfortunately, … we take the body itself to be 'I' and experience it so, and … only a narrow attachment. That Ātma is one and the same in all. We must … such a sense of equality. We must develop such a feeling of oneness. Only when we nourish such a divine feeling does humanness shine. Divinity blossoms. Holiness comes about. So in every task we must move … in harmony.