In plain words
So they too have no Śānti. If you do not like someone, simply keep still; do not keep his company; that is all: why revile him? Simply keeping still is itself the good deed you should do. He who cannot win authority over his own Manas, over his own senses: how … authority over someone else?
You must not spend your time in empty talk. You must not change your opinions and convictions to follow the times. Whatever you call wrong when others do it, such acts you must not do either. Even if you do not attain Divinity, it does not matter; if man does not sink to the beast and attains humanness, that much alone is enough!
God dwells everywhere, in every object, in every being; you need not wander from land to land searching for God: in your own daily tasks themselves, in your own conduct itself, you can behold Him. God is in the golden vessel called the heart, in the form called sacred Jñāna; not knowing this, to search outside is a mark of folly.
In the same way. There may be the quality of compassion in the heart. Along with it there must be Viveka too. Otherwise you will have to join the fool who, to show compassion and Prema to a fish that had come out of the water, took it home, gave it hot coffee to drink and killed it! The leaders of the people may have compassion and Prema; but, not knowing the right way to advance the welfare of the country and to achieve the world's …, they follow nothing but unholy wrong paths and establish nothing but injustice and lawlessness.
If you foster hatred, victory is not won; even if it is won, it lasts only for a time. If you journey on the path of Prema in the way of Śānti, if you make your efforts so, the work will succeed. Being afraid, and putting others in fear: neither of the two is natural to man. The one who fears is the beast! The one who frightens is the wild animal!
Satya, Dharma, morality, honesty: those who firmly believe in these have no fear; they do not harm anyone either. I am Sathya Sai! When Satya itself is the support, why fear? How can defeat come?
Empty souls, for the sake of an empty name and fame, may take the name of Sathya Sai on their own account, build organisations and make their attempts! Between such people and Me there is no connection at all. I am the witness of everything! If you switch on a fan, it turns and gives cool air; if you switch it off, it does not turn. But whether it is to misuse My name or to revile, they use it, and in that way, in one way or another, they do find some satisfaction; at that I am glad. Blame and praise are just what has dogged Me from age to age; but I never give them any value. The task for which I have come is the establishment of Dharma; whatever may come in its way, My work will not halt, and there will be no delay in it.
Embodiments of the divine Ātma! Do not believe that the world, which changes from moment to moment, is lasting; you must be ready always and everywhere, without fearing death; when the Paramātma Himself, eternal, pure and awake, is there in the seat of the heart, why grief, why fear and dread?