In plain words
In Bhārata, this supremely holy land, forbearance itself is our beauty; among all the vows, the one that shines is the great virtue of Satya itself, the hardest tapas; if you ask what feeling is sweetest in our land, what is more honoured than the feeling for a mother? Honour itself is greater than life, says our country's code; they have burned it to ashes, sought out the codes of foreign lands and given them to our day, and in haste, the strange freedom that is a drawn knife. Alas! What shall I say of the rule of Bhārata? Does the elephant not know its own strength? Just so have the people of Bhārata become today.
To make every effort and keep at it always, to learn great learning and become great, to till the land, to rule the round of the earth, to take service: all is for the belly. For the belly's sake, do worm, beast, bird and animal not live? So, thinking that contentment comes only without desiring, if, knowing this firmly, he does not reach the goal, man, looked at beside the other creatures, is only the lowest; examined well, can he be the higher?
Students!
The essence of all learning is the knowledge of Bhārata. Each country has its own kind of knowledge. In knowledge of every kind, good qualities such as morality, honesty, truth, sacrifice and forbearance are joined in equal measure. But this learning, in Bhārata's way of education, in its knowledge, is joined with the limbs of these five: custom, tradition, religion, art and study.