In plain words
foster good feelings.
This is what they called individual character. Only when you have individual character can you become a leader. We must foster individual virtues. We must develop individual character, social character and the national spirit. The national feeling itself is gone. I and my family: that far and no further do people travel.
This is my motherland, this is my dear mother tongue, this is my religion: one who cannot say so, beating his breast, is there on earth a single such living corpse?
Without love for your country you become a living corpse. We must foster love for the country. As important as love for the body is, so important is love for the country. The country is the reflection of the body. The country and the body: the two are image and reflection.
Students today must change their thoughts well through their pure character and through the growth of virtues. We must give no room to bad thoughts. Give it a little room and it grows. We must not let bad thoughts in at all. Even if they come, we must push them back. How? We must shut the door of our heart. We built a house. We put windows and doors in the house. What are doors for? We put them in for going and coming, in and out. We put them in for our relatives and friends to come in and to go. Because we have put in doors, do we let in dogs, pigs and donkeys? We have ten doors. We must not let rubbish collect inside or outside the door. We must drive bad things out. We must keep bad qualities away while they are still far off. We must not wait until they come inside. Ratnākara turned into Vālmīki. When such a wicked man himself could turn into so sāttvic a one, then for man, born as man, become learned, become a man of Vijñāna, with all the virtues present in him, to be unable to attain Mādhava-hood: tell Me, what a disgrace that is! We must take shape as divinity endowed with Vijñāna and Prajñāna. Through that divine feeling