In plain words
Forbearance is Satya, forbearance is Dharma, forbearance is yoga, forbearance is Ahiṃsā, forbearance is yajña, forbearance is right observance, forbearance is compassion; forbearance itself is the ground of all.
Students!
The very first thing man must achieve, the foremost of all, is forbearance. This sacred forbearance is not something learnt from books. It is not something taught by teachers. It is not something received from friends. Nor is it something bought in the market. It is not something a company supplies. It has to be gained by practice, by entering the path of Satya in daily life; it is not to be had in any other way. Following the path of Satya in daily life, this forbearance is to be gained through the path of Dharma. This forbearance is a safe armour for man. However many hardships befall, however many troubles befall, however many sorrows come upon us, we must not bow to them, not swell up, not sink down; we must put on this armour called forbearance, and with it hold firm, push on and go forward. Nothing else has the power that forbearance has. It is man's foremost value. Today man forgets forbearance, this human value, and, taking part in merely material and worldly pursuits, he loses his own human value. But man today gives way to the hardships and joys he meets in daily life and loses this forbearance.
Life is most precious. Life is a very long journey. Life is to be lived. Life is most sacred. To follow the divine path in such a sacred life, forbearance is needed above all. It is amid some hardships that this forbearance grows. Without hardships there is no way to develop forbearance. “The pleasure is an interval between two pains.” Hardships are what make man's values known. Sorrows are what bring out man's humanness. It was in hardships that the five Pāṇḍavas were able to guard their forbearance. So hardships are the very steps that lead to joys. But this forbearance, too, we must use with a sense of the moment. When, to whom and in what way to use this forbearance: the rule and method of it we