In plain words
Only when you gain such a nature of standing by others will you be able to attain divinity. So, there is nothing greater than Prema. Prema swallows up even the whole cosmos. Nothing else in the world is found greater than Prema. You sing bhajans, you do dhyāna. But without Prema none of these is of any use. Prema keeps flowing as a hidden stream within. The Gaṅgā, the Yamunā and the Sarasvatī are the chief streams that flow in the hearts of men. The Gaṅgā and the Yamunā are deities of the life-breath. Flowing hidden within them is the Sarasvatī called Jñāna. That Sarasvatī is your education. This education flows as a hidden stream within; it is not something that flows outward. You have come here for the education that, guarding these two, flows only as a hidden stream within. You are gaining Jñāna. It is not seen. You spend your time reading books, learning facts and repeating them by heart. These too belong to Prakṛti; they are physical, they are worldly. These are not what we have to achieve. Along with this, you must make the inward principle of the Ātma flow as well. Only when you nourish the principle of Prema within these studies does it turn into the true principle of bhāva. That same turns into the principle of rāga. That same turns into the principle of Mukti. That same goes round the three worlds. It is such a principle of Prema that you must achieve first of all.
Sai’s principle of Prema is just like that. In the Kṛta age people did dhyāna. For what? To make the mind pure. In the Tretā age they performed yajñas and yāgas. Why? Only to make the mind wholly pure. In the Dvāpara age they offered worship. What was this worship for? They offered it to give up the self to God. But in the Kali age there is Prema alone. Through this Prema you can reach a sacred state. Through Prema one can achieve any state, however lofty.
So you must regard the Kali age as far more worthwhile than the Kṛta, Tretā and Dvāpara ages. You must put your faith in a pure heart. Easy paths are open to you. You may not have the bodily strength to perform yajñas and yāgas. But whichever way you go, even as you walk along, even while you are eating, there is no obstacle at all to remembering the Name.
The Name of Hari, the Name of Hari, the Name of Hari alone; in Kali there is no other way, no other way, no other way at all.
There is nothing greater than this. So go wherever you like, remembering the Name. Go to any country. “We have wandered through all the lands and come back weary; we have no refuge left”: so they sang. Did they wander through lands? No! But bodies keep wandering. From this body to another body. It is bodies that wander; lands are not wandered. However many bodies change, the indweller remains one and the same.
The body is made of the five elements; the body must fall, sooner or later; the indweller is free from every ill; consider it well: for the indweller, death and birth, the marks of the bonds that delusion binds, there are none, if you look at the truth; that indweller is the God of gods; consider it in your mind: He is the Ātma Himself!