In plain words
Every thought that comes to them is of great value. Not even a thousandth part of such sacred thoughts is to be seen in the young today. They have grown so weak that they cannot give their elders even one meal. If you give them one meal, they will raise in us ten times its worth. The eagerness elders have in bringing children forward is found in no one else. In the past kings consulted the maharṣis on every matter and followed their suggestions and their advice. Even today people study the books they wrote. But they cannot understand even a thousandth part of them. They say ‘Ātma, Ātma, Ātma...’, but they cannot come to know the principle of the Ātma. Where is the principle of the Ātma? The Ātma is immortal; it is beyond form and name. You think, ‘This body is mine.’ Because you have put it on, you say, ‘This is mine.’ But you are not the body; not the Manas; not the Buddhi; not the citta; not the antaḥkaraṇa. You are the embodiment of the Ātma, beyond all these. The Ātma is the power that is the root and ground of all powers. If you stand near a jasmine bush, a great fragrance comes from it. Did that fragrance come from the jasmine flowers? No, no. The power of God is its source. Many such things lie hidden, beyond man's understanding. Above all, man must make his faith in the divine firm.
From humanness to divinity...
In the Mahābhārata, Draupadī, the daughter of King Drupada, stood as a symbol of the firm power of the Ātma. When Aśvatthāmā cut the throats of the sleeping Upapāṇḍavas, Arjuna caught him, bound him and made ready to cut off his head. Then Draupadī, “Arjuna! As much as I grieve at losing my sons, if you now kill Aśvatthāmā, his mother too will grieve as much, will she not! So you must not kill him,” she pleaded.