In plain words
Embodiments of Prema! Above all, today you have built a temple. But I know that these temples are no satisfaction. The temple of the heart alone is lasting. This money, put to some social service, some service of the poor, some work for the uplift of the town, would have served its purpose. But we are not in so perfect a state. So we need some support for it. If you ask why we need temples like these: when we see a lawyer, we remember lawsuits. When we see a doctor, we remember illnesses. When we see a temple, we remember God. So you are building a temple here. To remind us in this way, temples are certainly needed. But the true temple is your temple of the heart, your temple of the heart itself. We must make this temple of the heart holy and fill it with the principle of Prema. Instead of filling the head with scholarship, crying ‘learning, learning’, we must try to fill the heart with Prema. This is the true ideal of the Sai organisations.
If you ask what the Sai organisations are doing, many who do not know think, ‘They sing some bhajans or other.’ That is not all. We can say that no other organisation has done the priceless work the Sai organisations are doing. Services done with true Prema, with a full heart, with a broad outlook, free of self-interest. These women, children and old people are doing them with so much affection.
In truth, if you ask what Swami's power is: He gives some vibhūti, He gives some other things; these are not My great powers. My Prema is the greatest power of all. My Prema alone has drawn your Prema this far, and there is nothing beyond that Prema. So what is Swami's power? Great Prema. There is no power beyond this Prema. So giving Prema and receiving Prema: this is My business. How much income lies in this business, not even an income-tax officer knows. My Ānanda has no bounds at all. I am always full of Ānanda. The reason is that I have formed My kinship with Prema alone; I have formed no tie with things. That is why there is Ānanda. You too, follow this path. You too will surely be full of Ānanda. You will gain Śānti in every way.
Pleasure and sorrow, joy and hardship, gain and loss, victory and defeat: whose workings are all these? They are simply the changes of nature. Which of these is it that troubles us? We imagine that pleasure gives us rest in every way. This is a great mistake. Within the changes of nature there are both cold and heat. But if we decide which of these is good and which is bad, in the hot season coolness is good. In the cold season warmth is good. After all, both do us good; they do us no harm, do they! So it is, too, with our gain and loss.