In plain words
Man today spends his time always with bad thoughts alone. He spends his time with bad habits alone. He spends his time with bad deeds alone. He brings his life to its end with bad qualities alone.
Students! You must nourish good thoughts, good conduct and good behaviour to the full. You must make your Bhakti and surrender to God grow.
Faith in God is gone, the Dharma of courtesy has lost its form; strong unbelief has grown, reverence for the guru is gone; to Bhakti, farewell….
How can a human nature made of such feelings be fit for 'Śatamānaṃ bhavati…'? We must make our faith in ourselves grow. This faith in ourselves is wasting away. Whom can a man trust who cannot trust himself? God is within. A blind man cannot see the sun. One full of Ahaṅkāra cannot see the Ātma. So Ahaṅkāra covers man's sight like a film over the eye and dulls the sight. So we must give this Ahaṅkāra no chance at all. Our positions, our learning, our riches and wealth: all these are passing clouds. Man today uses half of his life to earn money, but does he put even a small part of that time into the spiritual path? Or into sacred works for the good of others? 'Paropakārārtham idaṃ śarīram': the body has come for the good of others, has it not! Why does man not recognise such a truth? Man gives his life over always to selfishness and his own gain alone. Man today is, all his life, like a puppet in the hand of selfishness. Whatever object man loves, he does not love the object for the object's sake. He loves the object for his own sake. Whatever person he loves, he does not love the person for the person's sake. We love the person for our own selfish sake. When man goes deep in this way into every small matter and enquires into it finely, it is all selfishness, selfishness alone. Taking this meaningless selfishness as his support, he forgets the infinite principle of the Ātma.