In plain words
When we rid this human life of bad qualities and evil thoughts and develop good feelings and good conduct, the country will be in constant festival, hung with green festoons.
All are equal to Me
Embodiments of Prema!
Let every one of you pray, from the time you rise at dawn until you lie down at night, “Lokāssamastā ssukhino bhavantu”. Cut away the narrow feelings of ‘I and mine’, and wish that all may be happy. Only when all are well will you, too, be well. All your welfare, all your Ānanda, rests on society itself. We must work for the welfare and the Ānanda of society. We must desire the welfare of society. Love even those who hate you. That is the ideal Sai is demonstrating.
To tell the truth, there is no one in this world whom I dislike. They may have dislike and hatred for Me. “All are equal to Me.” Achieve at least a little of this equal-mindedness. “They say God is the embodiment of compassion, an ocean of mercy, the embodiment of Prema, yet God does nothing at all to remove my troubles and losses,” some devotees lament among themselves. God is indeed the embodiment of Satya, the embodiment of Prema, an ocean of compassion. But how far are you following the command of such an embodiment of Prema? Put that question to yourselves. What you practise is nothing, but what you hope for is a great deal. Even if you put into practice just one or two of the words God has spoken, God's grace will rain down on you.
Not recitation: practice is what matters
Today in the world the spreading and the recitation of the Bhagavad Gītā go on a great deal. But are there any who practise, who follow, even one or two of the things taught in this Bhagavad Gītā? Today everyone is a hero in hoping and a zero in practising. They set the book of the Rāmāyaṇa on their heads and recite it happily. But is there even one who carries out the keeping of a father's word? Then what is the use of reading the Rāmāyaṇa? The Rāmāyaṇa, the Bhāgavatam and the Bhagavad Gītā are not books for recitation alone; they are books to be practised. The Bible, the Qur'ān and the other great scriptures, too, are fit to be practised, not merely to be read. Some people spend their whole lives only trying to know. If the whole of life is wasted just in knowing, when will they ever practise? The fruit is in practising, not in knowing.