In plain words
Though one has won ever so many pleasures and riches, in the mind Śānti itself has gone into hiding; all have forgotten to recognise their humanness: this word of Sai is a word that tells the truth.
Embodiments of Prema! What man should long for is not happiness, and not sorrow. Man's foremost duty is to recognise the divinity that lies beyond both happiness and sorrow. Neither happiness nor sorrow is a thing man should reach for. When happiness comes, sorrow enters while you are rejoicing. While you are grieving that sorrow has come, happiness enters. In ancient times the great sages attained the state beyond both happiness and sorrow. They recognised the truth that sorrow alone makes the divinity in humanness known. For man, sorrow is a greater helper than happiness. “Nasukhāllabhyate sukham.” Ānanda does not come from happiness; it comes from sorrow alone. Man must accept happiness and sorrow alike with an even mind.
Man today, thinking that money alone matters, scrambles after it and wastes his life. The wealth man must above all possess is none other than the wealth of Prema. If you have Prema alone, you can achieve anything. For the past three days meetings have been going on here.