In plain words
With our ears we must not listen to idle matters or to the slander of others. Casting evil looks and listening to slander are great sins. It is very good to listen to the things of God alone. What has God given the tongue for? Is it for tasting flavours? Or for reviling others? No, no. With the mouth we must utter the Name of God, let others hear it, and so carry them across. Why do we sing kīrtana? For the sake of the melody? No, no. We sing it to cure our disease. If we call ‘Rāma’ just once, great joy wells up. But we must do it with all our heart. ‘Rāma! Protect me!’: if we say this as a recited verse, it does not give so much joy. If we set it to a melody and sing ‘Rāma, protect me’, it captivates the heart. It is enough to call ‘Rāma!’ from the heart. The name of Kṛṣṇa too is just as mighty! But what we have to do now is not to utter some name, Rāma's, Kṛṣṇa's or Sai's. If anyone in trouble comes before our eyes, we must draw them close and help them with love. “My dear! What do you need? Are you hungry? Here, take some food!”: saying this, you can feed them as far as your means allow. There are little children. Their parents go off to work. Those children wander about the bazaars. Now and then they even meet with accidents. We must take such children to ourselves and keep watching over them, so that they come to no harm and no accident. Children who have met with accidents we must take to hospital, give them medicine and help them. We must care for the poor. We must relieve the sick of their illness. To the feeble and to those who cannot walk we must lend a hand and help them. When we ourselves practise such service and teach it, a kind of awakening springs up among the people. “These children are doing such good deeds! We too must give them the help they need,” they will say, and they too will stand by you.
All are children of God!
We must speak good words to children. ‘Come, my dear! Come, come’: so we must call them, with good words. We must not call them angrily, “Hey, come here, you!” We must speak gently and sweetly, without hurting their hearts. We must take care that they do not grow angry. Through our words and our deeds we must show our love for them. Prema is the greatest power of all. So, to everyone: ‘Brother! Come, come’: so we must greet them, with love. ‘Do you have money troubles? Are you troubled by illness?’: so we must ask them with love, learn what problems they have, and give them the help that is needed.