In plain words
The ancient culture of Bhārata belongs not to art but to heart. It is not a matter of doing it under some compulsion; these feelings must come from the heart. Whatever we do in this sādhana, we must do it with faith in God. This alone gives anapekṣa its true meaning.
What is needed today is not men in form but men in conduct
Man cannot live in the world without expectations of any kind. One can merely talk, but no one can do:
they can talk of a crore of things and do not do one; to talk is easy, to do is hard, even for the Creator, even for his grandfather.
For us, talking is easy. Doing is very hard. First of all we must prove our strength in the doing itself. Today practice is very much needed. It is not men in form that are needed; men in conduct are needed. Truly, as those mantras are chanted, they melt the heart even of one who knows no language at all. And on top of that, how very clearly our paṇḍitas chant! Truly, do not take this amiss. I have looked in every place, in Tamil Nadu and in Kerala. But nowhere is the Sanskrit pronunciation so correct. But this paṇḍita chants so very clearly. He chants each word beautifully, so that it touches the heart. All his followers have been following this very way. We went to Kerala when Burgula Ramakrishna Rao was Governor there. There a Nambūdri brahmin was the Sanskrit paṇḍita. A great paṇḍita. As he chanted the mantras, Ramakrishna Rao shut his ears, poor man! ‘Paṇḍita! Do not kill our Mother Sanskrit,’ he said. That paṇḍita: ‘Jāntākāraṃ bhujagabayanaṃ padmanābhaṃ...’ He should have said ‘Śāntākāraṃ bhujagaśayanaṃ.’ See how he debased Sanskrit! For this paṇḍita, living in Tamil Nadu, to chant so clearly means he chants better than the Āndhras do.