In plain words
He has desires that even a householder does not have. Our culture of Bhārata is being uprooted. Then, if one is a scholar, he may have learnt all the Vedas, Śāstras, Itihāsas and Purāṇas well by heart. He may wear a fine, heavy rosary of rudrākṣa beads. But there is no conduct in them that befits that guise and that title. “Paṇḍitaḥ samadarśana”: equal vision is empty in him. When it is empty in him, how can he be a scholar? If he has desires within the sannyāsa that means renunciation, how can he be a sannyāsī? But men today, all who give discourses on Vedānta, are all kings of enjoyment. They are turning into kings of yoga, but they are not becoming kings of renunciation.
Serve, and so cross over
So today we must conduct ourselves in a way that befits the service of the Sathya Sai Seva Dal. We are servants. Whoever we serve, we must hold the feeling, “I am doing this for God.” With how sacred a feeling Hanumān, the monkey, served Rāma! You must not think that because he was a monkey he was a fool. Hanumān was serene, virtuous and strong. When that Hanumān was on a tree in the Aśoka grove, the rākṣasas all questioned him. “Monkey, where have you come from? Who are you?” they asked. Then Hanumān tells them: “Dāso'haṃ kosalendrasya. I am the servant of Rāmacandra,” he said. He did not say with pride, “I am great, I am strong, I am Hanumān.” “I am a servant, the servant of Rāma”: that is what he said of himself. So unless you are a kiṅkara you are not a Śaṅkara. Unless we are servants we are not leaders.
Because all the leaders of today are not servants, they are turning into vināyakas. We must shape our life in service. In this service we must not give the mind in the least to Ahaṅkāra, to selfishness or to self-interest. Whoever we serve, we must do it with the feeling in our heart, “I am doing this for God.”