In plain words
All the reform of society has gone into the Gaṅgā; contentment itself has vanished from mankind; the values of character and morals are shattered: ah! what shall I say of human life?
Embodiments of Prema!
If the family is to be well, if society is to advance and prosper, if the country is to be green with crops, unity and fellow-feeling must grow among mankind. In this Kali age, of all strengths the strength of society is by far the greatest. What is society? Society is what makes many people, who live with many feelings, in many ways and with many thoughts, live with one feeling, one thought and one goal. A task the individual cannot achieve, the collective can achieve with ease. The culture of Bhārata accepted the collective feeling, not the individual feeling. Our life is a collective life, not an individual life. So only when we develop the collective life can humanness attain happiness and peace. Disunity brings discontent. It brings on many sorrows. Contentment makes humanness one and sanctifies it through a divine life. So the strength of society is very great. A mere blade of grass cannot bind even a small ant. But when many such blades of grass are gathered and woven into a rope, it can bind even an elephant in rut.
So unity and fellow-feeling are vital in humanness today. But unfortunately, because unity has declined in Bhārata and fellow-feeling is lacking, Bhārata has had to suffer many sorrows. It is not that Bhārata lacks the powerful and the wealthy. It does not lack the strong. It does not lack men of great intellect. But though there are so many, they have no unity and no fellow-feeling among themselves, and so the country has sunk to this state.