In plain words
Unable to curb attachment, even a yogi will fall; only those who give up enjoyment will attain that yoga, sir. Open your eyes and see, brother, Śrī Sāī, the God who, if you think on it, is present everywhere, brother. To those who say, “Bring us to the shore,” He holds out a sturdy boat; look at the short Swami who goes about in silk clothes; open your eyes and see, brother: He is no man of empty words, brother; this Sāī, the God, does not go looking at painted dolls, brother.
Students!
Even the spring that has gone by comes round again. Even the moon that has waned grows full again. But a man's youth and the water of a river do not turn back. At this sacred age, seeking a feeling that is divine and noble is most necessary for students. Among the gifts God has granted, time is the most important. Only when we do deeds that make time worthwhile do the body and its deeds become worthwhile. But man today spends half of his life on nothing but food, sleep and the like. The rest of his time he makes useless with idle talk and monkey tricks. Some more time still he wastes in bad conduct, in reviling others and in mocking others. He puts most of the time he has into thinking about others, but uses none of it at all to think about his own affairs or about God. He does not try to recognise what life is. Even after taking up so sacred, so divine a human birth, he does not set out to recognise the secret of this human birth or its inner meaning. Human birth does not come again and again. “The path is one, my child, never leave it”: that path alone we must never give up. Which path must we never give up? The path that goes back to where we came from: that path alone we must never leave. That very path is the great mantra in the Bhāgavatam. To go back to where we came from is the nature of every living being! So the true secret of birth lies in making the sacred time within humanness worthwhile.