In plain words
Looking at it again and again, the joy he felt was beyond description. Then he set aside the book he was writing. Before this mama dharma, shining like the sun in the sky of the land of Bhārata, this book I am writing is only like a candle light, he said. No book greater than this is to be seen anywhere in the world, he said. Though such holy books, moral teachings and śāstras are there in the land of Bhārata, the people of Bhārata do not believe in them; they believe in the Dharmas of others and waste their lives. In them there is a kind of perverse pride. However valuable, however holy a thing near him may be, when he is drawn to the ways of others, man falls into misery. For this very thing there is a saying in Telugu: ‘Better than the feast of five dishes and sweet rice cooked at home is the taste of stale dal from the house next door,’ so they have said. Though we have such holy things, how foolish it is to love the things of a foreign way that cannot match them at all, that are nothing like them!
Students! The knowledge of each country is that country's chief thing, its standard. No one must criticise it. In keeping with the conditions and the sway of its place and time, for each country its own knowledge and its own Dharma take the form of a standard. But all standards are only for purity of mind. The knowledge of Bhārata gives an ideal life for the uplift of humanity. Without giving any thought at all in our minds to such uplift of humanity, without our giving an ideal life, merely reading the whole book and knowing the subject is not enough. What we know we must put into practice. Only when we put it into practice does it bring joy. Where there is no such practice, however many books we read, they are of no use.
If you study a crore of learning and have no virtue, what is its worth, and what is its fruit?
So virtue is most important. In keeping with such virtue, from ancient times the people of Bhārata went on spreading this message of virtue in a natural way. Bhārata's philosophies or its śāstras of Vedānta: no knowledge has the authority to criticise them.