Passage 13

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You keep seeing it in the paper every day. We hear of so many: hijackers, kidnappers, looters, gangs of robbers. When you look at the names of all these, they are great engineers, doctors, brilliant minds! Did humanness grow in them through this learning? So humanness does not come with learning. It is gained through saṃskāra. So, rather than go through all these troubles, only setting up these government teachers and the children with "Human values," if we develop this humanness well in all who are in our organisations, the whole world will be set right. First of all, these human values must truly be present in every man who is in the Sai organisation. We must bring them out. We must raise up what has sunk down. That is: Uttiṣṭhata jāgrata prāpya varān nibodhata. Sunk in what is called Ajñāna, we are forgetting the sacred human light that is in us. If we remove Ajñāna, this light of Jñāna shines. So, if we want morality to come, first there must be love. There must be fear of sin. So every person, all of us, must make these three grow: love of God, fear of sin, morality in society. In each Samiti, about the services done so far, we cannot help telling the truth. To Me both are My two eyes. It is the women who have done more service. It is the women who have done more work. It is the women who are the root cause of the Sai organisations' good name. (None of the men is clapping!) Women set themselves to sacrifice. So among the women too, in the field of education with Bāla Vikās, to some extent in service, and in these spiritual matters, we must give them a good chance. I hope that, putting those women too into three wings, in this spiritual matter, in service and in Bāla Vikās, they too will form a kind of society and develop it well. We must also know today the faults that are in them. They do a great deal of service. In sacrifice there is no one to surpass them; in Prema they will give even their life. But if they turn stubborn, they will take even a life. Because some of them have envy of one another, organisations that ought to have developed further are dropping back a little. Among these women, rather than scrambling after authority, they must recognise the carrying out of duty. I am the President. You are Secretary, you are Vice-President. You are under my hand. To such authority you must give no room at all. You are a sevak. I am a sevak. What need is there for any kind of difference between one and another?

In some places it goes on like mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. I will tell you one thing about mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law. This is the very chance. After this none of you will be caught again. In a house there lived a mother-in-law and a daughter-in-law. The mother-in-law had some work and had gone off to someone's house.