In plain words
We did not hope for a single coin from anyone! Should there not … gratitude that fits this? These are qualities contrary to education. When someone hands us a towel that fell down, we say, 'Thanks' … for life, making such a support, caring for so many children, so many children … … drawing them close, fondling them and guarding them in so many ways, looking after them in every way: if those children … … even then have no gratitude, how cruel it is! What then is the use of their studying? So all the … are only selfishness. Selfishness. Not even one boy do I see … in sacrifice.
They enter this work keeping their own selfish interest as the aim. So however many such … there may be, there is no use. One is enough.
If one man of virtue is found in a family, the whole line shines by his goodness, as the sandalwood that is in the forest makes it shine.
If there is one sandalwood tree in … the whole forest is given a good fragrance. The … flower is very beautiful, but it has a strong foul smell. But the jasmine … is small. Its fragrance it sends through the whole forest. So if I find even one or two … people, that is enough. With them any amount of work can be done. Holding one candle you can light even …sand candles. That itself is unity in diversity. The … present in all must be recognised first of all.
Recognise Swami's principle. If you cannot recognise it here, you cannot recognise it anywhere in the … world. This is not said as an exaggeration. I am telling you this while toning down a great deal of the power … still. On the whole, the least selfishness in Me …. Understand that much, at least. Whatever Swami does, it is for your good. Hold firm to the … that says so. You must become good and make the children good too. Only then will this … take shape as an ideal. Seen from outside, the Sathya Sai Institute is … of such and such a kind. Because the institutions around it are not of that kind. Where there is no tree, they say the … tree itself is the big tree, and they think of this as something big. We must not take fame of that kind. … must appear as a big tree. It must give shade to many and take shape as an ideal. I am not … afraid of anyone.