In plain words
If this humanness is to grow, it grows only in a spiritual atmosphere. If you bring a seed, put it in a tin and pour water on it, that seed will rot. But when that same seed is planted in the soil, it grows into a tree. When humanness is kept in what is worldly, it does not grow. In these worldly and physical things this humanness does not grow at all. Only in what is of Dharma, moral and spiritual does this humanness grow. So what we must develop today is humanness. Every human being must attain humanness. We must understand humanness. It is not right to develop only bonds of the body and kinship alone. This is only kinship of the body. Before birth, who was mother, who was child? Before marriage, who was wife, who was husband? All these are only things that joined midway. All these are passing clouds. We must not be afraid on account of such things. We must give no room to sorrow. All these come about through meeting and parting. The whole of life is an ocean of towering waves, made of the struggle of meeting and parting. How many efforts we make! Every day we hope for so many things. By ceaseless toil, by unending anxieties, by hopes that cannot be reached, by aches we cannot understand, we long for a gain whose form is … and fall into endless sorrows. So we must believe that spiritual lights are the lamps that show a good path to men who have fallen into this unrest.
If spirituality perishes, Bhārata itself perishes. So we must see to it that spirituality does not perish. Bhārata rests on spirituality alone. They have written: Indian culture and spirituality. Culture and spirituality are not two at all, in my …. If there is spirituality, culture merges into it. These two must not be separated. When there is spirituality, all the Dharmas of every kind merge into it. Without it, merely culture, culture: what culture is that? Meaningless culture. Culture means saṃskṛti. Saṃskṛti means what has been refined. How has it been refined?