In plain words
At times I think, ‘Our own Bhāratīyas themselves are making beggars in this way. Though the Bhāratīyas are so great, why do they foster such a mean mind?’ The feeling, ‘I have nothing with me,’ must not come from you. You know this. In the Shirdi Avatāra, once a rich man came to Bābā and hurried Him: Bābā should teach him Brahmajñāna urgently; for this he had hired a tāṅgā to come and go; if Bābā taught him Brahmajñāna quickly, he would be off. Then Bābā made him sit down, called a devotee, and sent him to a certain merchant to fetch five rupees. When this devotee went there, that merchant had locked up his house and gone off somewhere. Then Bābā sent him to another merchant's house and told him to bring the money. He too was not at home. He went to another house. In this way, every one of them turned out to be away. Though all this was going on, the rich man, sitting right beside Him and watching the whole situation, did not take out even one note from the bundle of notes that filled his pocket. Then Bābā looked his way: ‘When I want five rupees, wherever this devotee goes, there is none to be had! Sir, you have your pocket full of money. All this while, right before your eyes, you have been watching Me send this man to many houses for money, and him come back empty-handed. Even so, from your pocket full of bundles of notes you did not take out even one five-rupee note. How will Brahmajñāna come to you, who cannot sacrifice five rupees?’ So Bābā rebuked that businessman. Today people give alms to beggars under compulsion, not offering them with Prema. Whatever work we do, we must do it with Prema. If someone comes and asks, ‘Bhavati bhikṣāṃ dehi’, we must receive them kindly and give them food. Everyone has an equal share in the wealth that is in this world. So there is no saying that you are great and that he has nothing. We must give up such petty minds. The spirit of sacrifice must grow in us. Only one who has learned this sacrifice becomes great.