In plain words
This youth is just what comes midway and goes midway. Leaning on this youth, so passing, coming in the middle of life, you must not go astray. This is a most noble life. This is a sacred time. We must not waste this time. Though we try afterwards to make good the time we have wasted, it is of no use at all.
Students! Develop faith in the culture. Dharma is not limited to one country or to one time. The culture of Bhārata is beyond the sway of place, time and circumstance. Within these fifteen days you can try to recognise its full form well. Our Vice-chancellor Sharaf, at the start, while welcoming everyone, prayed that the power, the greatness and the nature of these five, the body, the senses, Manas and the Ātma, be explained. Today this is truly most essential for students. Without knowing who he is, man tries to know the world outside. One must make the effort that is needed to know oneself. So one must try first of all to recognise one's own body, one's own Manas, one's own senses and the Ātma principle.
One who lives in the world must first become a human being; one who goes on praising all the evil deeds of the demons is a fool; to learn Brahma-jñāna and to know here Ātma-jñāna: this alone is the royal road for our life.
We must recognise this road first of all. We must learn this lesson. We must be dedicated to this word. We must drink this sacred Veda …, the essence of everything. All these fifteen days, filling our hearts in this sacred time with sacred feeling, all these students, young women and young men, must make the effort that is needed to spread and teach this throughout the vast land of Bhārata. More than everything else. What matters most is Bhakti. Bhakti for God is most essential. Without Bhakti for God itself, we can achieve nothing. We think, 'I am achieving, I am achieving'; this is nothing but a distorted form of Ahaṅkāra. So we must develop self-confidence.