In plain words
All these are clouds that pass. Not one cloud here is fixed. So there is no need to grieve over this here. So you must not grieve. This is the very teaching of the Avatāra. We must not suffer over anything. Some pain has come. After this there is pleasure. The pleasure is an interval between two pains. So afterwards Ānanda will come again. It is with this very faith that we must carry on our life. So there is a great difference between divine Ānanda and momentary joy. Happiness is not permanent. It concerns only the head. The head means responsibility only. As long as you do service, that responsibility must be there. After you retire, the matter of your office is no concern of yours. But Ānanda concerns the heart. It is lasting. Now you are feeling a little hungry. You are very sad. You think, 'When, oh when will Sāī Bābā finish? Let us go to the canteen and eat tiffin.' If you go to the canteen and eat two chapātīs, they say, 'Santōṣamu.' This is happy. 'Now I am happy,' you say. What does happy mean? Santōṣamu is some tōṣam, that is all. A little satisfaction. A small satisfaction. So do not chase after santōṣamu. Chase after lasting Ānanda. Lasting Ānanda is had by us through God alone, and by no other path. So the Avatāras come so that divine Ānanda may be attained, and in order to give divine Ānanda. These hardships, losses, sorrows and griefs: all these are small. All these merge in Prema alone. If you have won Prema alone, every sorrow is removed. Strive for the grace of God. Do not believe that God is somewhere separate and apart: 'God dwells in me myself.' Where divinity is, there victory is.
That is why the last śloka in the Bhagavad Gītā:
Yatra yogeśvaraḥ kṛṣṇo yatra pārtho dhanurdharaḥ tatra śrīrvijayo bhūtirdhruvā nītirmatirmama.
In whosever heart Kṛṣṇa, the Lord of yoga, dwells, and wherever the pure sādhaka of courage and faith dwells, there all good fortune and all victories are had. We must recognise what the meaning of Kṛṣṇa is. It has taught a meaning of three kinds. Kṛṣa tīti kaṣṇa, they … . Kṛṣi means farming. Farming what? He is farming the field called our heart. He pulls up the bad feelings, the useless weeds, and throws them away. He puts it in the … called the water of Prema and makes it soft. With the ploughs called sādhana He ploughs and ploughs. What is called the Name of God He plants in the ….