In plain words
Without heat it turns into charcoal. It cannot be called fire. For sugar, sweetness is its dharma. Without sweetness it becomes mere sand, not sugar. Just so, what is man's dharma? It is to have desires. To keep increasing desires without end is the dharma of man. So it is the giving up of desires that is spoken of as “giving up all dharmas”. This way is called Vairāgya.
Make the knowledge of the Ātma shine forth
It is because desires of many kinds have gone past all limits today that men’s minds are deluded. Desires must be kept somewhat in check. Animals cut back their desires as soon as their stomachs are full. But man today, instead of enjoying what he has eaten, hopes for still more. To say it in a word, beasts, birds and wild animals seem better than man. For they have nothing of the habit of hoarding, nothing of the wickedness of plundering.
But the reason man today has lost his humanness altogether and suffers is that he cannot recognise the truth of who he is. In every human being the Vijñāna “I am the Ātma” must blossom. Only when that Vijñāna blossoms does Prajñāna shine forth. Only then does a direct seeing come. So we must make the divinity in us blossom and shine forth.
The people of Bhārata are embodiments of the Ātma
There is no country greater than Bhārata; all the Avatāras are born in Bhārata. Today we are unable to keep this great Bhārata in its right order. We should be proud that we were born in such a Bhārata. We should live an ideal life. Instead, foreigners are carrying off the good fortune of Bhārata’s people from Bhārata. And the people of Bhārata go abroad and bring back the dirt of those lands. Is this the true mark of a man of Bhārata? No, no. The people of Bhārata are embodiments of the Ātma. Whoever recognises this truth, even a foreigner, is an embodiment of the Ātma. Today they lack the strength and the capacity to recognise it.
Wherever you look in the Vedas and Śāstras, the Itihāsas and Purāṇas, you will find many examples showing that the people of Bhārata have the strength and capacity to recognise that they are embodiments of the Ātma. Man must merge in divinity itself. Try to recognise this truth. Make the enquiry it calls for. The Vedas teach, “Know yourself.” You must try to know the Vedas. What you have come to know you must put into practice.