Passage 1

brahmadarśana bhāgyambu paḍayagōri

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prēma yanu paṇṭa paṇḍimpa nalavi …

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In plain words

Longing for the good fortune of the vision of Brahman, where do you go searching, O foolish mind? It is within you; see it there. This word of Sai is the path that makes Satya known.

No one can raise the crop called Prema; it cannot be sold in a shop. Be they lords or common people, they must give up the ego, become renouncers, and seek it.

Embodiments of the divine Ātma!

For every being that makes the journey of life in the field of karma, the mind, speech, ears, eyes, nose, legs and hands, all of these, are karaṇas formed for daily use. Karaṇas means tools. Because they are karaṇas we use in our journey of life, they have another name as well: upakaraṇas. In this world of nature, to achieve any success at all, three things are most necessary: karaṇa, kāraṇa and kartā. The one who uses these karaṇas is the kartā. The one who is made use of is the kāraka. The desire of the kāraka is the kāraṇa. Man's chief goal is to recognise the oneness of these three, karaṇa, kāraṇa and kartā. Ordinarily, in daily life, we use these words: the eyes are seeing, the ears are hearing, the mouth is speaking. But if the eyes themselves see, the mouth itself speaks and the ears themselves hear, then after a man dies, these ears, these eyes and this mouth are still there, yet they do not carry out their own work. What is the reason that they no longer see, hear or speak? There is, hidden within man, one power, whatever it may be, that makes this speak, makes it hear, makes it feel and makes it think. Only as long as it is in this body can the eyes see, the ears hear, the mouth speak, the hands work and the legs walk.