In plain words
So such things do happen. If need be, help them. If they stay three or four days in hospital, we may bear their expenses. We must lay all this responsibility on the doctors alone. Some such tactics too are very necessary.
Now, above all, here some say the name Sevā Samiti should stay, and some say it should not. This service is very necessary. What we do is service itself. It is through service alone that the feeling ‘I am a servant’ lifts one to any height. If the … name is lacking, Ahaṅkāra may run riot. You all know. In the Rāmāyaṇa, Hanumān: how strong he was, how virtuous, how very mighty. When such a Hanumān went into Laṅkā, all the rākṣasas questioned him: ‘Who are you?’ Finely … he did, it seems: Dāsoham kosalendrasya. ‘Sirs, who do you think I am? I am the servant of Śrī Rāmacandra,’ he said. In that word servant there is great virtue. There is great fruit in it. There is great radiance in it. Only then does the strength of God too enter into it. When one thinks, ‘I am not a servant,’ Ahaṅkāra enters. This Ahaṅkāra brings a downfall. Yesterday I said that this illness called Ahaṅkāra yields to no medicine. Go to any number of countries and show it to specialists: the illness called Ahaṅkāra is not cured. By humility alone is Ahaṅkāra destroyed. That is why, of learning too, they said, ‘Vidyā vinaya sampanne: one who is learned must be humble.’
Learning gives humility; from humility comes worthiness; from worthiness, wealth; from wealth, Dharma; from that, man gains this world and the next.
So to gain this world and the next, this humility itself is of the first importance. So we must enter this work with humility.
There is one more thing you must particularly note. I am telling you My wish; if it satisfies you, you may surely do it; if not, you may act as your joy leads you. What is happening now is that people go on dividing it: the Sathya Sai Organisation apart, and the ordinary Sai devotees apart. Now many lakhs of people keep coming to Prasanthi Nilayam. Out of faith in Swami and out of Bhakti they do pūjā in their own homes. Such ordinary devotees have no connection whatever with this organisation. This is not right. We must give everyone the chance to join this organisation. All of us together are one society. We must develop the feeling of oneness: we are all one family.