In plain words
Just so, whoever suffers in the world, we must feel that we ourselves are suffering and help them. As we do so, we must feel that we have helped ourselves. All this is only helping yourself! It is only relieving your own pain! When we recognise the Satya that the divine principle in others and in ourselves is one, there is no room for these feelings of difference. To teach such equal-mindedness is the chief aim of Divinity.
Hardships and sorrows alone show the worth of human life!
However much we hear, however much we read, however much we see, humanness falls now and then into pettiness of this kind. We must root out our pettiness. We must develop equal-mindedness. To foster this equal-mindedness, the principle of Prema is the one main path. A small example. In human life many hardships and losses, sorrows and griefs come about. These show man the way to progress. Without hardships, sorrows and griefs, human life would have no relish. Hardships and sorrows alone show the worth of humanness!
Because Hariścandra went through many hardships and faced them, his fame spread through the world. However much his father Hiraṇyakaśipu tormented Prahlāda, however much pain he caused him, Prahlāda faced it with Bhakti and surrender, and so his fame spread through the world. But under the influence of Kali, the idea has arisen in people today: ‘No hardship must come to us, our feet must not cross the threshold, not a coin must be spent, and Mukti must come and drop into our lap.’ Things that drop in like that go the same way they came. In truth, only what is won through hardship gives us real strength. ‘Swami! Bless us so that no hardship, loss or sorrow of any kind comes to us,’ they say. This is not the right prayer. Hardships must come. You must face them, conquer them and win through. Winning through like that, you must attain the direct vision of God!