In plain words
Embodiments of Prema! I am searching. I go on searching. Then and now I have searched for the true human being, the one devoted to Dharma.
Look, does all the darkness die at the news of a lamp in the world? Is the hunger of the hungry appeased by hearing the names of the five kinds of food spelt out? Does a pauper's poverty go merely by hearing of the power of wealth? Do a sick man's grave illnesses leave him by hearing all about the wonders of medicine? By reading the whole host of śāstras, is the dense darkness of Ajñāna cut away? Of learning in this world that is not practised, though learnt in plenty, what is the fruit? A big round zero.
Embodiments of Prema! Before you teach anything at all to others, you must put it into practice yourself and experience it. To experience it, to enjoy it and then to pass it on: this is most essential. The ṛtviks, every one of them, are very good. I have found ṛtviks after My own heart. The sādhana and the yajña you have done these ten days have been most satisfying. You have gone on doing even more than was hoped for. To find ṛtviks like these is great good fortune. Tomorrow this yajña comes to its completion. The yajña comes to an end, but the mantras do not end. The mantra abides for ever. It is not bound to the guṇas. ‘Without attributes, stainless, eternal, the abode, ever pure, awakened, free, of spotless form.’ Such mantras go on sounding in our ears without ceasing. Only one who is joined to the mantra is a ṛtvik. The ṛtvik is not one thing and the mantra another. If the mantra itself is lacking, he is no ṛtvik. These mantras come only to the very fortunate. How many people there are in the world! Of all of them, only 130 could take part in this yajña as ṛtviks. How fortunate you are! ‘O vipras, in accord with the Veda, who ever hold the śāstra to be Satya!’ Vipras are those who have put their faith in the śāstras. Can ṛtviks like these be found anywhere else? They can. But among them all there is some difference, more or less. To say it as on oath: every single mantra you chant comes out perfectly clear. To find ṛtviks who chant the mantras like this is great good fortune. Many people are very happy that the yajña here has been performed by ṛtviks such as these. In just the same way, another yajña is to be held in Puttaparthi at Dasara. The yajña performed every Dasara is a Jñāna-yajña. The Jñāna-yajña has to do with the principle of the mind.
Ṛtviks! Tomorrow great fruit awaits you for the toil you have borne. You do not know this fruit now. When you have gone back to your own homes, reflect on it, and Ānanda will surely come into your experience. Among our ṛtviks there are many young men. That all of them have come together to take part in a sacred work like this is great good fortune. ‘To find ṛtviks like these is great good fortune, My dear,’ I told Vinay. But I wonder whether all went well for you here! Whether the arrangements for food and lodging were right for you or not! Whether Vinay is making the right arrangements for you or not... From morning till evening this is the very thing I keep thinking about. If you are happy, that itself is My happiness. All ten days have passed like ten minutes. All these ten days you have rejoiced greatly. I too have rejoiced greatly. Wherever you go, you must keep recalling this sight in your mind. You must never forget this sacred experience. Very soon you will come back to Puttaparthi. Not only this: I have resolved to hold this yajña in Madras, and very soon.