In plain words
So there is no use in having it done by someone else; you must do it yourselves. If someone else eats, is your hunger satisfied? For your hunger you yourselves must eat, must you not! In the same way, for your Śānti you yourselves must worship. Today no one can recognise the secret of divinity. ‘I’ alone is the root principle. So you yourselves are God. But you think the body is ‘I’. A great mistake. What is the body like?
A hovel of filth, a servant's basket rotting with diseases; a thing that, once born, is stirred to and fro; a tuber; a thornbush that cannot cross the sea of birth; a quiver of arrows: rise and see! However we may think to admire it, this body, do not trust it as lasting, O mind! Take refuge at the feet of Hari!
But as long as there is a body, you must see that no illness or pain comes to it. There is nothing wrong in wanting that. Only when the body is well can you do any work. Only when the body is healthy is the mind healthy too. When the body is not healthy, the mind is not healthy. So look after the health of the body; fix your mind on the principle of the Ātma. Give up the narrow feeling, “I alone must be well, it does not matter what happens to others”; you are living in society. Without society, where would you be? So, “Lokās samastās sukhino bhavantu”: wish that all may be happy. Nourish equality. Only then will Ānanda come to you.
The name of this new year is Vṛṣa. In Kerala they call the new year ‘Viśu’. “Prabhava, Vibhava, Śukla, Pramodūta, Prajotpatti, Aṅgīrasa, Śrīmukha, Bhāva, Yuva, Dhāta, Īśvara, Bahudhānya, Pramādhi, Vikrama, Vṛṣa, Citrabhānu, Svabhānu, Tāraṇa, Pārthiva, Vyaya, Sarvajittu, Sarvadhāri, Virodhi, Vikṛti ….” In this way there are sixty years in all. All these are the names of Nārada's children; they were born when he turned into a woman. Because Nārada wished his children's names to last for ever, their names were given to the years. This year will bring some good too. Grow in goodness; develop sacred feelings; lead a life full of Ānanda.