In plain words
To Gain Good Fruit, Sow Good Seed
When a diamond is cut, its value goes up. Keep eating and eating, and the neem turns sweet. Keep singing and singing, and songs will come. It did not begin with songs right at birth. All of it is ‘Śreyohijñāna mabhyāsāt...’. Walking, reading, talking, eating, writing: all of it is practice. So we must practise this too. To ride a motorcycle, how much practice they put in! How many knocks they take! How many get their knees hurt! How many times they fall down! Even so, do they give it up! But, unfortunately, in spiritual matters alone, if some wish fails to bear fruit, they drop it altogether. In other matters, however many troubles come, they bear them, push on through them and go forward. No, no. This is what we must achieve. For what? This is our destination. This is our goal. Only when we achieve this shall we have made good our birth. Since humanness has come to us, its fulfilment must win the cry ‘Sai!’ When hardship comes, people grieve so much. But when happiness comes, they rejoice so much. Why this joy, why that hardship? Without that hardship, this joy would have no value at all, would it?
You do a deed that is sin, and when its fruit comes as misfortune, you are vexed; ‘You do not protect me,’ you say, and heap the blame on Me. You yourselves sow what yields fruits of poison, and today you hope for fruits of the sweetest taste.
Is this humanness? What was sown: seeds of poison. What is hoped for: sweet fruits. Unable to eat the bitter, bitter fruits that grow, they lay the blame on God. This is against the law of nature. As the seed, so the fruit that comes. Do you hope to have good fruits? Sow good seeds! At the start it is joy, joy, this family life.