In plain words
You may have forgotten. Two days ago, before I began My discourse, nothing but wind and rain came. Standing in that wind, I called, ‘Everyone, come inside.’ All who were outside came in and sat down. I began My discourse. Not a single drop fell. In that same Shirdi there is the dhuni. The women have a great craze. Devotees keep coming. They sell firewood. They would buy a stick and put it in the dhuni. How far this fire will go, what will burn and what will come of it: they give it no thought at all. To be satisfied that ‘we have offered prasāda to the sacred fire’, they buy sticks and put them in. After a while a great blaze began. Śyāmā came. He called, ‘Dādā!, Dādā!’ Bābā used to call him ‘Dādā’. ‘Kyā Śyām! Kyā haṅgāmā? Dekho?’ Bābā said. The Fire-god had appeared. Who is there to watch, there? There is no one there. ‘Why do you show your might when there is no one? There is no one to teach you sense. You should show your power where it is needed; why your power where it is not needed?’ So saying, He took hold of the pillar and struck it twice. In a moment the fire died down. What does this mean? No effect happens without a cause.
He Alone Is Blessed Who Turns Attachment to the Body into Attachment to God
Would anyone, however mad, go to the bank of the Gaṅgā and call out, ‘Sir! I will give you water; come, anyone’? Why give water? The river Gaṅgā is flowing all the while. Yet a great many have turned out madder still. These paṇḍits. They take Gaṅgā water and, saying, ‘Keśavāya namaḥ, Mādhavāya namaḥ, Nārāyaṇāya namaḥ’, pour it into the Gaṅgā. Water from where, and where are they giving it! They are pouring the Gaṅgā's water into the Gaṅgā itself. Because this kind of naivety has grown so much, atheism is growing in the country. You must show a reason for everything. In everything you must win a ‘Sai!’ In the modern age even so small a boy asks questions. Little children ask, ‘What is creation, sir?’ He does not know what creation means, but he asks.