In plain words
The hard sword of the god of death is always swinging over every head. Which moment, who knows! Which minute, who knows! Keeping that condition in view, we must from moment to moment do holy deeds, without hurting others and without suffering ourselves; trusting divinity at least in some measure, we must set our time on the divine path and serve society.
Cherishing the poor, the helpless and those who are simply orphans, receiving their Prema and giving them your Prema. We must recognise that kinship lies in just this. What we give and take are not things. Things are fleeting. They may be here for a minute. After that they may be gone. So in this world fashioned out of what is seen, only form and name appear. Look anywhere. This world is a blend of names and forms. Each thing has its own name. But the special thing about these forms and names is this: the name does not change. The form changes from moment to moment. ‘What is seen perishes’: every object that ever comes into sight keeps changing. So when, instead of looking on the changing object as fixed, we make the unchanging name our support, that name brings us the vision of the true forms as well. That is why it has been said that remembering the Name is very important. Whatever work we do, if we begin it remembering the Name, it gains its true purpose.
I say this now and then. When we go to a shop, pay money and take some goods, we have no tie at all with that shopkeeper. But if instead we have the goods written down on credit at that shop and take them home, that debt turns into interest. If we waste all our time paying off just this interest, the debt stays a debt. So when, time after time, we pay for the actions we have done as offerings to please God, as we would pay off this money, no debt remains to us at all. We have no trouble from interest at all. So, on the path called ‘Every act for the pleasure of God’, whatever act you do, you are not the one doing it. In fact, you thought your eyes were seeing. Even after death the eyes are there. In the state of samādhi you have eyes. In a faint the eyes are there. But can you see then? You do not see! The eyes of that day are here today as well, are they not! If the eyes themselves were seeing, why should they not see today? Then the mouth! The very mouth there is in life is there after death too. If it were Satya that the mouth itself speaks, why should that mouth not speak after death? No, no. What supports all these is the principle of life. This principle of life is the divine principle of the Ātma, and this principle of the Ātma is the true form of Dharma. So only when we recognise the Satya that supports all this do we come to understand true humanness as well.
Embodiments of Prema! We are human, human; all of us are of one kind. All of us share one birth. Between this birth and this kind there is no link of any sort, no difference of any sort. Even so, colours may differ.