In plain words
without any hesitation at all in mind, one who can give them to others is a true tyāgī. Leaving the fruit of action as an offering to Īśvara — this is what tyāga is. The tyāgī becomes ready to give up even his physical body, considering it as worthless as a blade of grass. Sacrifice means not only giving up material wealth, gold, possessions, vehicles and the like — one must also renounce the ill qualities that have hardened, birth after birth, and become fixed within us: hatred, envy, anger, cruelty and selfishness. The renunciation of ill qualities itself is true sacrifice. To give up even one's own body for the welfare of the world, the progress of society, and the well-being of all beings, and, without fearing even death, to offer up the whole of one's life — this is true sacrifice. There is no other happiness greater than sacrifice. Such a person alone is an amṛta-putra; he alone is a chirañjīvi.
If one examines our ancient purāṇas and itihāsas, such people of sacrificial character appear in abundance. King Śibi, Dadhīci, Karṇa and other people of sacrificial character — so many of them there are. The world urgently needs such people of sacrificial character today — even just a few of them — among today's students and political leaders. Forgetting selfishness, suppressing Ahaṅkāra, driving away infatuation with position, and banishing narrow-minded notions, one must gird oneself for the welfare of society, the establishment of Dharma, and the rule of justice. Unfortunately, as time goes on, the meanings of words are changing. Tyāga, justice, Dharma and service are turning into a kind of business. Selfishness is running riot among students, political leaders and education officials alike. Infatuation with power and craving for position have grown excessively. The land of Bhārata, once renowned as the land of sacrifice, of action, and of austerity, is turning into a land of pleasure. For that very reason, so many ills have broken out in the country.
This state of affairs must change. History must repeat itself; people of sacrificial character must arise among you by the thousand, and every Bharatiya young man must again, into an embodiment of sacrifice,