In plain words
Day by day he must develop new and noble feelings, take to a new path, and give people a new ideal. That is the true new year.
In Vedānta, ‘Ahaṃ etat na’ is the chief maxim of Jñāna. It means: what is fashioned from the seen is not ‘I’. The body too is fashioned from the seen! So man must give up the delusion that the body is ‘I’. He must believe, “I am the embodiment of the Ātma, eternal and true.” Only when he holds such faith in the Self deeply can he offer an exemplary life. But man today does not understand what faith in the Self means.
Satya itself is the visible God
Where there is faith, there is Prema. Where there is Prema, there is Śānti. Where there is Śānti, there is Satya. Where there is Satya, there is God. Satya itself is the visible God. Man worships God by many names. ‘Sahasra śīrṣā puruṣaḥ sahasrākṣaḥ sahasrapāt.’ All heads, all hands, all eyes are God's! So the names are not what matters. God is one. We must recognise the truth that there are not two Gods. ‘Ekaṃ sat viprāḥ bahudhā vadanti.’ That is the one and only Satya. It lies beyond the sway of place, time and circumstance. In any land, in any age, in any circumstance, Satya does not change. American Satya, Indian Satya, German Satya... You cannot divide Satya up, speaking like that. That itself has been called Transcendental Truth. We must believe that such Satya alone is God, and worship it. We must follow the path of Satya. The reason the world today has fallen into so many troubles is precisely that people have forgotten the path of Satya! “Speak the truth, speak what is pleasing; do not speak a truth that is unpleasing,” it has been said. Only when we follow Satya and Dharma can the world enjoy peace and comfort. The chief principle in the culture of Bhārata is ‘Speak Satya; walk in Dharma.’ But today they have cut off the feet that are Satya and severed the head that is Dharma. Holding on to the trunk that is artha and kāma, they flounder about.