Passage 1

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In plain words

Sweeter than sugar, more delicious than the cream of curds, more delicious by far than honey grown thick, as the mouth speaks it again and again, it grows richer still and seems nectar itself; so, every day, remember it well in your mind: the Name of Rāma.

Though a man has learnt the Vedas and the Vedāṅgas by heart, though he can put together verse and prose, if cittaśuddhi is lacking, that man is ruined; Sai's word delputūṭu the truth.

Embodiments of …!

In this world every human being is born into three kinds of debt. … is the debt to God. The second debt is to the ṛṣis. The third is the debt to the fathers.

The debt to God means that in every atom and every cell of our body the power of God pervades the whole body in …. It is the power of God alone that moment by moment … nourishes the power present in every such limb, makes it grow and protects it in every way. The inner meaning of this is also that if we, … using the power of God in so many ways, do not repay it in gratitude to God, our humanness becomes …. So to put this body into meritorious works and into tasks connected with …, and to perform our tasks in a spirit of … so as to make this body worthwhile: that is repaying the debt to God. This body … the gods protected …; … a body that does not, through the body, … with works that are noble, holy, divine and splendid is of no use. By putting this body into good karma and … in the spirit of offering to God, we become those who have repaid the debt to God.

The second debt is to the ṛṣis. The great ṛṣis of old made their bodies, their … and their karma worthwhile, and establish… the śāstras for man's good in this world and the next …. It is the ṛṣis who wrote all the śāstras, the Upaniṣads, the Rāmāyaṇa, the Bhāgavata and such texts, and gave … an ideal path.