In plain words
So you must give up differences of caste and creed and develop the principle of Prema. Only when the young men and women are set right will the country prosper. Human life rests on character alone. The country is going to ruin precisely because of young men and women without character.
“This is not My body; it is your body”
Embodiments of Prema! Make your life full of Prema. Engage your hands in work that helps others. Strive to rise from the level of vyaṣṭi to the level of samaṣṭi, and from the level of samaṣṭi to merge in Parameṣṭhi. Give up attachment to the body. The body comes, and it goes.
A hovel of filth, a servant’s basket wasting with disease, born to be stirred about, a tuber, a thornbush that cannot cross the sea of worldly life, a quiver of arrows: rise and see! When you think of the peril we are in, this body, do not trust it to stand firm, O mind! Take refuge at the feet of Hari.
Man suffers some illnesses through his own carelessness. But I, out of Prema, take on the sufferings of devotees. They go just as they came. A small example. I am telling you of My own experience. Recently a boy had a swelling on his jaw. The child is in pain he cannot bear. When they showed him to a doctor, the doctor said the swelling would last 20 or 25 days. He is crying, poor boy! I called him inside. “Do not cry. Why cry when Swami is with you?” I said, and I created a sweet and fed it to him. I took that pain on Myself. If it is truly something born in the body itself, the pain is more than one can bear. This swelling came at the Joint between the two jaws. Speaking is not possible. Even eating is not possible. I did not count it any loss if this body went without food for a few days. “Swami! How is the Guru Pūrṇimā festival to be celebrated? You are to open the International Seva Conference, after all!