In plain words
We plant a seed in the earth. We provide it with the soil, air and water it needs. When that seed becomes a sapling and afterward, growing further, becomes a great tree, does it become soil, or air, or water? Taking in all that was provided to it, it becomes a great tree in accordance with its own true nature. You too should conduct yourselves in that very same way! There is much that we need to learn from others — this cannot be doubted. Whoever refuses to learn, rejecting it outright, is an utter fool. Learn everything beneficial from others, and, in keeping with your own true nature, absorb it within yourselves.
You must live as yourselves alone. You must not become other than yourselves. You must ensure that no one draws you away from your own nature. That is, immerse yourselves in your own God, your own conception, your own supreme bliss, your own spiritual sweetness. Whatever schemes anyone may devise to draw you away from it, be fully prepared to give up your very life rather than let that happen. But do not try to abandon that divine experience, that divine bliss — this is what the Bharatiya highest teaching emphatically teaches. Set about removing the embankments that lie obstructing the forward course of this great stream — remove them! Clear its path. Then it will flow forward by its own power alone.
Spiritual practice in Bharat — it is Sai's own resolve that it should proceed along this path. For a very long time now, devout Dharma in this Bharat has remained static. It must now be made dynamic. It must come about that it enters into the life of every human being. From the grandest royal palaces to the huts of the utterly destitute, this devout Dharma