In plain words
Plunging and surfacing in the sea of worldly existence, where nothing has substance, finding neither path nor direction, O man thrown into turmoil! Keep a little patience firm in your mind, hold to Bhakti and look: the auspicious One, Sathya Sai, is the boat that has come to save you: behold it!
Embodiments of Prema!
Life is very precious. What sustains it is the life-breath. But there are many goals to be reached without a thought even for this life-breath. However many he achieves, man carries his life further and further on, with the thought that many more remain to be achieved. Dissatisfaction itself is man's satisfaction.
Unity is the chief principle of life. The path of life is collective effort. That itself is Śrī Rāma's protection. On the day man can grasp the way of living that recognises the ties of kinship between man and man and acts on them, on that day he will be able to reach the sacredness of humanness. If these seventy crore people of Bhārata go on fostering the feeling of a plus for each and every one, the people of Bhārata will enjoy great joy and its fruit.
Precisely because there are no ties of kinship among men, life, in which demonic tendencies such as selfishness, Ahaṅkāra and envy dance the dance of destruction, is turning meaningless. That is exactly why cool breezes, the rays of the sun, drops of rain, or anything else at all, do not come to us freely. Beyond that, there is no doubt at all that the worth of humanness is sliding down. The humanness that dedicates life to a high ideal is not to be seen today. We must make a fitting effort to nurture the humanness that will give up even its own life for the world and hold fast to sacred aims.
A country does not mean the ground, which does not speak with us. The country is the living society itself, present before our eyes every day. Every single person must regard the happiness of society as his own happiness. Only then will Bhārata, or any other country, be fit to attain well-being. It is most urgent to recognise the Satya that one's own happiness, too, is held within the happiness of society. We must dedicate our Manas, Buddhi and body not for our own sake alone but for the sake of society.
God means the very power of nature. Seeing man scrambling without rest, driven by anxieties he cannot make sense of, to attain what is not to be attained, nature laughs. When we try to recognise the sacred maxims that nature practises, it becomes clear that nature is full of a meaning that is fathomless and endless. Because the earth turns round by itself at a thousand miles in an hour, night and day come to be. If night and day did not come to be, man could not live in this world. Nor is that all. It also goes round the sun, a distance of 66,000 miles each hour. By this the seasons come to be. Only through the seasons do the rains fall, the crops ripen and man's food come to be. From these seasons the earth gains no comfort whatever. From night and day it gets nothing at all for itself. Every single person must follow the way of nature, which does karma free of self-interest.
The chief principle of life is conduct; even after one dies, one's conduct stays on in the world. Conduct is man's very life. A life without conduct is nothing but a living with no life in it. In the world people keep saying that knowledge is stronger than anything else. No, no. In this world no strength is to be found greater than character. No wealth, no learning, no authority of any kind is of the least use before character. Character is not something got from a book. It is gained only through close kinship with society. Precisely because sacred qualities such as kindness, Dharma, sympathy and compassion are missing, a state of things has come about today in which humanness cannot even be recognised. Humanness, humanness. What are these human qualities? Is envy a human quality? Is Ahaṅkāra a human quality? Is Ahaṅkāra a human quality? Is anger a human quality?