In plain words
Weighing what quality did He come that day to protect Prahlāda, the Supreme Person? Weighing what quality did He come that day, the Lotus-eyed, at the hour of saving the elephant? Weighing what quality did He come that day to protect poor Kucela, He whose story the Vedas tell? Weighing what quality did He come that day to foster the boy Dhruva, the Dweller in Vaikuṇṭha? Weighing that very quality, He whom the immortals worship has incarnated to protect the afflicted: Lord of the helpless, Lord of Śrī, Lord of the worlds, embodiment of Sat-Cit-Ānanda, Puttaparthi Sathya Sai.
Īśvara is the embodiment of all wealth and glory. Śaṅkara means the One who makes all things auspicious. Not one thing in this world is lacking to divinity, which is all-knowing, all-pervading and all-powerful. But men forget the divinity that is the ground of this physical world, put their trust in material things, vehicles and the like, and, unable to make sense of life, make waste of it. The working of man's Manas is a bundle of desires. In the language of Vedānta this very thing was called ‘kāma’. When it is filled with the longing to know, it crosses the frontiers of science and lays bare the secrets of the starry regions and the wonders of the endless ocean. When it turns to the material, it brings sorrow, through narrow feelings, through attachment and hatred. When it turns to the spiritual, it brings the Ānanda of the heart. The principle of the Ātma, beyond attributes, stainless, eternal, the abode of all, whose nature is ever pure, awakened, free and spotless, can be realised through the sāttvic quality alone.
Faults show up only in man's conduct
There is no fault in wealth. There is no fault in learning. There is no fault in knowledge either. But these faults show up only in man's conduct. Pure water has no colour of any kind. Poured into a black bottle, it looks black. Poured into a red bottle, it looks red. Poured into a clean bottle, it looks clean. In the same way, there is no fault at all in wealth and riches, or in learning and Viveka. When they come into the heart of one whose nature is rājasic, they take on the form of attachment and hatred. When they enter the heart of one whose nature is tāmasic, they take on the form of tamas and drive him on into demonic ways. When they enter a sāttvic heart, they serve the welfare of the world and the ideal of human life. That is why every man must develop a sāttvic nature, enter the path of Satya and strive to reach the eternal goal.