In plain words
If humanness is to reach its fullness, we must develop a divine humanness. We must develop the human qualities. We must nourish the human qualities. Only then shall we be those who have experienced, as something divine, the sacredness of this humanness.
The basis of karma is Jñāna. The basis of Jñāna is karma. Only when we understand how karma and Jñāna work together does humanness find its fulfilment. In the world, food is bhoga; Ānanda is yoga. Humanness, which begins with food, must go on until it reaches Ānanda. Only then does humanness find its fulfilment. To begin with food and come to an end with food alone is not right for us. It would be an insult to humanness itself. Beasts, birds and animals too go on living their lives on food and nourishment. But humanness: 'Jantūnāṃ narajanma durlabhaṃ'; in the land of Bhārata such a sacred culture has come down from time without beginning.
Of noble feeling, the Bhāratīya's divine principle of the mind, to know it, the Bhāratīyas have not learnt to strive: what misfortune could be greater than this?
Born in the sacred land of Bhārata and bearing the name of man, we forget divinity itself, and so our life goes by without fulfilment. Embodiments of Prema. Truly, we must recognise what difference there is between bhoga and tyāga. The Upaniṣads said that only when bhoga is enjoyed together with tyāga does it become yoga. Bhoga enjoyed in a spirit of tyāga is itself this divine humanness. Yet we must enquire how, in the ways of the world, bhoga and yoga are truly bound in close relationship.
The bhogi takes no notice at all of the principle of yoga. The yogi gives no thought to bhoga. Between these two stands tyāga. 'Nakarmaṇā naprajayā dhanēna tyāgēnaikē amṛtatvamānasu': between this bhoga and yoga, tyāga is essential. It is only for want of this tyāga that humanness is falling prey to so much unrest. Physically and scientifically, mankind has made this much progress, but morally it cannot rise above petty criticisms and narrow feelings. What is the reason for this? When each one goes deep and enquires, the root cause of it is the selfishness that has taken root, in many ways, in the … of man's heart. It is only because we make this selfishness and self-interest our basis that humanness is sinking still lower in its morals.