In plain words
While the lamp is burning within the house, why go to the neighbour's house for fire? To be God oneself and to forget God: is that not like forgetting oneself?
Students!
In the culture of Bhārata every object is the very form of God. In this world no object can be found that is not God, no life that is without God. From the stone to the gem, from the ant to the lion, from the bird to Garuḍa, from the little pebble to the mountain, it is God alone. The people of Bhārata have worshipped the tree, the hill and the earth. The people of Bhārata today have forgotten this sacred tradition and, in a merely worldly way, have taken all this for blind belief; in this modern age students follow this very path, and they have gone on pushing the ancient tradition aside as blind belief. The faith of the people of Bhārata is filled with a great inner meaning. This principle of Prema that God bestowed, the people of Bhārata did not keep confined to human beings alone; they went on spreading this principle of Prema to all beings and to all objects. Tyāgarāja:
In the ant, in Brahmā, in Śiva, Keśava and the rest, shining forth with overflowing Prema: O Sītārāma, who bore this title, protect me. O Rāma, protect me!
God's Divinity pervades everywhere. The people of Bhārata have worshipped even a little stone lying on the road. They have loved and worshipped even the anthills that venomous snakes have entered. In this way, no object can be found in the world that the people of Bhārata did not worship. Even now, in the regions around Calcutta, people do the service of giving food to fish and to birds. Compassion for all beings, …: that is the name given to the people of Bhārata.
To think such a culture of Bhārata blind belief: there is no greater folly than that. Western people have said that there is nothing greater than the feeling of brotherhood. But in the culture of Bhārata there is another, higher place than brotherhood. That is the feeling of the one Ātma.