In plain words
Your service is for your own sake alone! In the future, some day or other, this service will yield its fruit. Whomever you serve, think of it as serving God. The inner Ātma of all beings is the Paramātma; ‘Īśāvāsya midaṃ jagat’; ‘Īśvarassarvabhūtānāṃ’. So think, ‘Whomever I serve, I am serving God!’ You may not have the strength to serve with the body. If, when someone is suffering, you grieve with a pitying heart, ‘Alas! Poor man! How he suffers!’, that too is service! Today the country is in great confusion and is falling into disorder. Wherever you look, quarrels and upheavals! Wherever you look, dreadful news and deeds. It is hard to know what will happen, in which minute, when and where. In such conditions, how should we conduct ourselves? What is the root cause of this? The root cause is that compassion has withered away in man's own heart. We speak of ‘hṛt dayā’, but there is no compassion. So mankind has become empty; man is there, but kindness is not. Without that kindness he is a man in form only, not a man in conduct.
Whatever village we go to in service, we must first set foot there with the Name of God
We must conduct ourselves as befits our name; we must conduct ourselves in a kind way. In mind, in body and through speech, we must show this kindness. This is what Vedānta called trikaraṇa-śuddhi. He alone is man. The proper study of mankind is man. Thoughts, words, action: the three must become one. Whatever village we go to, we must first set foot in it with the Name of God. When we enter that village with the Name, the whole village takes on the form of the Name. The village people will go on following us. Today those who can pledge themselves to such sacred work are the young. The young men through whom today's society has been thrown into turmoil: those very young men are able and fit to bring peace and security to this world.