In plain words
Good conduct, a good Buddhi, steadfastness in Satya, Bhakti, discipline, the keeping of one's duty: what teaches these is education; the student must learn them. The word that tells Satya is Śrī Sai's word.
One who is a man must let go of his bad qualities one after another, in turn; casting off the nature of the beast, he must become the Lord of beasts. Sai's word is the path of Satya.
He who lives in the world must first become a man; he who keeps praising all the evil deeds of demons is a fool. To learn Brahmavidyā here and discover the Adhyātma is the path to Rājayoga; that is the word the śrutis speak.
Embodiments of Prema!
Man means mind, thought. A man's own radiance is the very fruit of the power of his thoughts. In daily life we experience the outcome of our actions in a particular way. If the world today is not as it ought to be, what is the reason for this? Simply that man's actions are not as they ought to be. It is precisely because man's thoughts are not pure. Man follows wicked ways in many forms. So only when thoughts are pure, holy and given to doing good to others will the world be as it ought to be. Every little task a man does has a goal, an aim. Nobody roams the bazaar with no business there. He goes to the market for some goods or other, brings them back and finishes his task. The student goes to his place of learning to gain education. There he carries out his duty and comes home. Life is a long journey. We forget that it needs a goal, an aim. When each of us asks himself for whom he is living, the right answer does not come. Ask anyone, ‘Sir, for whom are you living?’, and he answers boldly, ‘I am living for myself.’ That is an entirely wrong answer. Question him many more times: ‘If not for myself, for whom am I living? I eat for my own hunger. I drink for my own thirst. I breathe my own air. If my leg is cut, I bind it up myself; for my illness I take the medicine myself. I am living for my own self,’ he answers.
When two people lie on one bed, each of them has a dream of his own; they do not have one and the same dream. So the answer comes back firmly that life is for me and not for others. That same man goes to an office for a job and pleads with the officer. When the officer gives him some small job or other, the man pours out his troubles to him in every way. ‘Sir, I have a mother and a father; I have a wife and four children. How am I to keep so many? So this salary is not enough for me. You must give me a bigger job,’ he pleads. For whom is he doing this job? Not for his own sake, surely! He has a mother, a father, a wife and children. The duty of keeping them rests on him. So what is the inner meaning of praying for a higher job? Not merely for his own sake but to support his family as well.