In plain words
Not only this: there are some businessmen. They bribe officials and get their own work done. The officials too take the bribe and do the work. These too are deeply sinful deeds! If ever someone has nothing to eat, give him some food and bring him a little happiness. But do not look down on him. Just because, out of some weakness of theirs, they ask, ‘Sir, mother, give us a little alms,’ they are not beggars. Nor are you a great man just because you have given a little food. Give him a handful of food for his hunger and fill his stomach; that is enough. Bhārata is never, at any time, a poor country. If Bhārata were truly a poor country, why have so many foreign peoples kept falling upon our country for so many centuries? People of many countries invaded Bhārata and carried off its wealth. Seen in this light, Bhārata is a wealthy country, not a poor one. Of his own accord a man imagines, ‘I am poor, am I not? The people beside me are like me,’ and so this comparing goes on. If anyone comes to you with ‘Bhavati bhikṣāṃ dehi’, then: “If we are to uphold the fame of Bhārata, we must not beg for alms. We must uphold the honour of our country,” so you must teach them.
The motherland is very great
First of all, you must be able to say with pride, ‘Bhārata is my motherland.’ You must love the motherland well. ‘My Bhārata is very great. It taught many people the authority of the śāstras and made them very great. The Vedas, the śāstras, the Upaniṣads, the Purāṇas, the Bhagavad Gītā and all the rest arose right here,’ so you must say with pride. Not only this. In every matter we must regard our Bhārata as great and describe it so. Only then will you have the right to call yourselves Bhāratīyas. There is one more thing you must also remember. If on the one hand you keep saying, ‘My country is great,’ and you behave like small people, how will this country become great?