In plain words
the Bharatiya highest-teaching stream has proclaimed it. At one's final hour, one commands one's own mind to recall the great deeds one has done and the great thoughts one has conceived, and to recall the path shown by the great ṛṣis. It is not a matter of recalling one's own faults and one's own folly. Foolish deeds and faults will be found in every human being. But keeping your true nature always in memory is the principal reflection. That itself is the stepping-stone to your progress.
More than anything else, we must chiefly note one more thing. For us in Bharat, religion means experience, and nothing that falls short of it. It is exceedingly regrettable that this vital matter has been forgotten so many times over. Every single one of us must believe this principle. Only then can you remain safe. Not only that — this resolve, that everything is accomplished by one's own effort alone, is not the belief of Bharatiyas. Bharatiyas believe that for everything, God's grace alone is the basis. Religious sentiments must be made one's own experience. Mere hearing brings no benefit. It is not enough merely to learn to recite some doctrine or other by rote, like a parrot. Nor is it enough for it merely to be agreeable to our intellect. It must become part of us, merging into us. That is why the supreme proof Bharatiyas have that God exists is not that it agrees with reason. That men of former times and of the present beheld Him, and that Bharatiyas believe the Ātma exists, is not only because there are strong proofs of its existence. The chief reason is that in the land of Bharat, many have themselves directly experienced their own Ātma. Such people numbered in the tens of thousands in former times. Even now such people are not lacking, and in the future too they will not fail to exist. Without having obtained the direct vision of God, or having attained the experience of the Ātma, man cannot become complete.