In plain words
So there is every need for each man to understand the culture of Bhārata and set about removing his own Ajñāna.
Man leaves the body before he has recognised his duty
‘From darkness lead me to light,’ it was said. It was to remove Ajñāna, to turn our humanness into divinity, and to make the sacred culture and history of Bhārata fruitful that the human state came into being; the human state was not granted to us to waste our time in hunger, thirst and sleep. The people of Bhārata today cannot recognise this Satya. Time is melting away at a furious speed. The span of life allotted to the body is melting away moment by moment, like a block of ice. And yet man leaves the body before he has recognised his duty. Is this the goal of man? Is this the duty of man? Is this the inner meaning of ‘Among living beings a human birth is hard to gain’? Do not the beasts and birds also experience the food, sleep and fear that man experiences? What is the inner meaning of saying that among all these beings man is the highest? We must recognise humanness. What is humanness? Mind, word and deed must be one. If that very oneness is not in his humanness, he is no man at all. So every individual must recognise the inner meaning in humanness, and act on it. Today the people of Bhārata themselves cannot recognise the power of the culture of Bhārata. In such a state, will they understand what the life of man is? Wealth, gold, goods and vehicles do not protect humanness in the least. All these are passing clouds, not lasting forms of real substance. Our life must draw nearer to divinity step by step. The nearer the light comes to us, the further the darkness goes from us. Not only does the darkness go; we also feel the warmth of that light.