In plain words
life, and can never achieve it. He who thinks of himself as base and of little knowledge — that man is base. He who thinks himself of little knowledge will surely become so; this is certain. As we think, so we become. We are children of that power-endowed Paramātma. We must think of ourselves as immortal sons. Truly being immortal sons, how can we be of little knowledge? How can we become worthless? That we should think of ourselves in such an exalted state — this is what the Bharatiya highest teaching has proclaimed as our human nature. Bharatiyas of former times held to this very belief alone. With this belief alone, they achieved complete victory in all their undertakings; they attained an exalted level; they gained progress. It is precisely by losing self-confidence that we today have slid down to such a state of decline. That itself is the beginning of our fall. To lose self-confidence is to lose faith in God, nothing more and nothing less. It is the Bharatiya highest teaching that this belief — that the all-pervading one, the indweller of all, stands in every atom too, like the warp in the weave, and that His Name abides within all bodies — it is precisely the strengthening of this belief that renders humanity sacred.
O sons of Bharat! Teach this truth — which preserves life, is glorious, and bestows generosity — to your children from the time they are born. That the Ātma is perfect: this wondrous doctrine alone is the sacred vision that Bharatiyas discovered. If it were not inherently perfect to begin with, it would be impossible for it to attain perfection afterward. Perfection acquired only in the interim will be lost again in that same interim. If impurity alone were man's natural condition, then even if he were to attain purity for five minutes, he would still have to remain an impure man; this interim purity would simply be washed away. Therefore the Bharatiya philosophers all taught that purity is natural to us, that perfection is natural to us; that impurity and imperfection are not our nature — this they taught. Having strengthened this teaching, to the world