In plain words
God's grace is a bank balance. If we want … to draw that bank balance, we must sacrifice. We must love Him. Only then will God's grace come to us. Unless we … love God, God's Prema will not come upon us. Today we say, 'I want God, I … want God.' With your lips you say you want Him, but are you opening the doors of your heart and keeping them open? You give a welcome, saying, 'To our house … …, come to our house.' But you bolt the doors. When you give a welcome, you must open the …, must you not! Are you opening your hearts? Are you making them wide? Are you … bringing them to blossom! No. The heart is ever turning into a dark mansion. Within that dark mansion … only the bats called lust, anger, greed, pride and envy keep gathering. So our heart… … must change. Holy and ideal feelings must arise. When we think, 'Sai devotees, Sai devotees', … we must have ideal conduct. However many years we stay, no … change comes in us. When there are no changes of this kind, no result of any kind comes to us.
Embodiments of Prema! Make your heart wide. That very wideness will … protect the country. Only then will humanness spring to birth in us. Today we must foster human values. … Prema, Satya, forbearance, sacrifice, sympathy: these are the human values. Anger, hatred, envy …: all these are the marks of beasts. If we foster even one or two human qualities, we can … … attain divinity in full measure. Whatever one asks of God at any time, it is selfishness, selfishness. If you stand in the queue for a bus, you think, '… the front seat must fall to me alone.' Are there not so many old people? Are there not so many sick people? Can you not ask for a seat for their… … too? People stand in the queue at the cinema. They … that a seat should fall to them alone. Twenty people sit for a photo. They do not look at how all of them have come out. We look: 'Has my photo come out well …?' Today selfishness has grown to the full in students. When results… … in a paper, there are four or five pages of numbers. Does any joy come to us that so many have passed? We look whether your number is in … or not. Be happy that so many numbers have come. Surely your numb…er will be somewhere. Only when we take up this sacrifice will that yoga be ours.
Embodiments of Prema! Above all, we must sacrifice selfishness. Only then will true divin…ity arise in us. There is water in this vessel. If you want to pour milk into it, you must pour … away this water; if you keep this water right there and pour in milk, there will be neither water nor milk. Both are lost.