In English
It is possible for us to develop the sense of oneness and develop the right attitude towards joy and sorrow. Though you have come from several parts of the country, you are able to mingle together like brothers and sisters, because there is that undercurrent of unity generated by the feeling that you are all Sai devotees. Here, Sai is one, but the individuals are many. Devotion helps us to recognise unity in diversity among the people here. In this baffling multiplicity is the shining unity of Sai. This garland in my hand may be regarded as one of the flowers consisting of various colours and perfumes. The flowers are many but the thread that binds the flowers together is one. Sai is the thread. You are all the flowers of various colours. We must take into consideration another aspect. Some flowers may be buds today. Tomorrow they will blossom and the day after, they will be full blown. You are young today, and after ten years you may become householders, and after thirty years you will become old. This process of evolution is inevitable. The flowers undergo change but the thread remains the same. This thread is the eternal unchanging thread called the . That principle which is changeless is .