In plain words
Do I have a wish of my own? If I still have a wish of my own, what meaning is left in Śaraṇāgati? Your wish alone is my wish.’ Then, recognising this truth, Rāma: ‘Do not be troubled. Build the leaf hut on this spot,’ he said. Such subtle understanding did Lakṣmaṇa have. So it was that Tyāgarāja, unable to bear his hardships, unable to bear his sufferings, kept reproaching Rāma. ‘I believed that Rāma alone is everything. But Rāma! You could not save me from my sufferings! Is there no devotion in me, or is there no power in You! He thought he must settle it one way or the other. ‘You cannot end my sufferings precisely because You have no power,’ he said. Afterwards he reflected. Shame! Shame! Shame! This is indeed my fault. If You had no power,
would a monkey cross the ocean? Would a woman tie You to a mortar? Would Lakṣmī Devī love You! Would Lakṣmaṇa serve You! Would Bharata, of subtle mind, gaze and gaze and bow down! Ah! How great is Bhakti for Rāma!!!!
He was pained. ‘Lord! Your power is so great. One cannot say Your power is like this or like that.’ In the same way, who can say Sai's power is like this or like that! They come from Argentina. They come from Australia. Are all these people without sense! Are they without wealth, gold, goods and vehicles! What does it mean that all of them come? Who is inviting them? From this one thing alone we can recognise Swami's nature. So to recognise divinity we need not read the śāstras. We need not read the Upaniṣads. We can understand it in this very thing set before our eyes. No one can describe divinity as being like this or like that. It is beyond description. Believing in such divinity, we must try to win through without losing our faith in God, whether in our hardships or in our joys. That is what I say from time to time.
Whatever I have taken hold of, I have held fast: stay just so until the hold wins through. Whatever I have longed for, I have longed for indeed: keep on worshipping until the longing is fulfilled. Whatever I have asked for, I have asked for indeed: do not let go until what was asked is given. Whatever I have set my mind on, I have set it there indeed: do not move until the thought is fulfilled. Either He, unable to bear the pleading, must save me, or you, losing awareness of the body, must cease; that and nothing else; but to stop halfway and turn back is not the devotee's vow.
Either He must give His grace. Or you must forget the body. Until then you must not let go. But today that kind of persistence is gone. That kind of awareness is missing. It goes on as part-time devotion. We must hold fast to such divinity, with firm faith. We must not waver in the least for anything. We must develop an unwavering vision and a mind that does not stray. Only when this faith is there will the strength you need come to you. You sang bhajans all night. We think this is akhaṇḍa bhajan. No, this is khaṇḍa bhajan. If it comes back to where it began, that is a full circle. But if it begins here and breaks off here, it is a half circle. This is part-time devotion. Ceaselessly, always, at all times, everywhere, the thought of Hari. Whatever work you do, regard it as God's work. Whatever word you speak, speak it as God's word. Do your office work; regard it as God's work. Keep the feeling of God in everything. That is akhaṇḍa bhajan. Begin to think of God ceaselessly, whenever you find time. If we forget God, we have nothing in the world. Everything is God. You too are God! We must strive to attain such a state.