In plain words
So, first of all, every one of us must not hold such feelings at all as "I am an office bearer, I am a State President, I am a District President, I am a President of the State, I am President of the whole world." I must do the service that suits my level. Every person must examine himself. I am state president. "Am I doing the work that befits my state President post, or not?" So one must question oneself. Then he is satisfied with himself. That is self satisfaction. But today no one has self satisfaction. What is the reason? He is not doing it for his own satisfaction. That is why that self satisfaction is missing. So, when every one wants to gain this self-satisfaction, each one must think at the very start, "I am a sevak." Through these words, through speeches, or through other kinds of show, we are losing our humanness completely. Rather than say a hundred things, let us do one and show it. If that sense of sameness, that feeling of Śānti, that feeling of Prema are to arise in us: we are sevaks; all of us are sevaks, all of us are workers. There is a machine. There is a pump set. There is a generator. It is made of iron. If that generator or that pump set, made of iron, does not work, it gets rusty. This body too is like a generator. It is like a pump set. That one is made of iron. This one is made of flesh. If even iron rusts, will the body not rust if it does not work? If you do not bathe for two days, it starts rusting at once. Vomiting begins. So the body of a man who does not work is like a machine gone rusty.
So we must work. But there is a limit too to how far we should do this work. If you work beyond measure, and the food, drink and the like that it should be given are not given, this machine breaks down to some extent. It falls ill. We must do as much work as keeps our health from breaking down. It must have rest. Look at a machine. A bus, a car, all these factories: what is the reason for giving them a sunday holiday? Once a week they give rest to those lifeless iron machines. Does this living body not need rest? So we must give it rest at the time it should be given. Embodiments of Prema! Rest does not mean spreading a fine Dunlop bed, putting out a pillow, switching on the air conditioning and lying down snoring. Change of work is rest. We must change our work. We went to the bazaar and worked. It is not a matter of saying, "We worked there and have come back," shouting at your wife, spreading two beds, bolting the door and lying down. Leave that work, and after coming home do your housework.