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In plain words
That is why we must try to listen to good words.
Listen to one word, listen to one good word; not listening, you play crazy games. (Listen) Human birth does not come again and again; there is one road only, O boatman ... that is you. (Listen) Not knowing how to give up your vāsanās, why have you held back your hopes? Giving up vāsanās, suffering and hatred, become a servant and choose the Lord Sathya Sai. (Listen)
People will not listen to a good word spoken from the heart, but every bad word they take into their ears. When people are speaking bad words, everyone pricks up his ears, comes along and listens. A good word: ‘Oh, that,’ they say, and walk off. This is the bad feeling of this age. It is a misfortune. A bad word: say ‘I do not want this,’ and walk off. This is true good fortune. And if it is possible, you must give them some sense and tell them not to speak of such things. Good words: fix your whole mind there and listen. We must recognise well the secret of life.
There was Jayadeva. A great devotee. The moment he said ‘Kṛṣṇa!’ he would forget his whole body. His wife was Padmāvatī. The king of Vaṅga too was a great devotee. That king and the queen, both of them, would come and gain the supreme Ānanda from the bhajans these two were doing and the services they were doing. ‘This good company has come to us; why then a kingdom, why these positions, why this wealth, why all this for me? I need none of these’: so he would keenly take note of everything he was doing. This is the true mark of Bhakti. He would not give his mind to hardships and losses of any kind, to sorrows or griefs. Always, in Kṛṣṇa's doings alone: Kṛṣṇa's play, Kṛṣṇa's songs, Kṛṣṇa's words; apart from these there were no other words for him. At times he would take even his wife to be Kṛṣṇa. Then, when she said, ‘What is this? It is I,’ he would come to his senses a little. In this way he attained oneness with Kṛṣṇa.
One day, as Jayadeva was going along happily at his play, this king of Vaṅga went with him. He took no soldiers and no officers of any kind with him. If his mind grew even a little unclean, at once, to that Kṛṣṇa: ‘Keep away, Kṛṣṇa! Do not come near me. My mind has become all unclean. You cannot come. There is no room for You to enter this spoilt heart,’ and he would tell even Kṛṣṇa to keep away.