In plain words
They could recognise only the things that become manifest physically, in the world; but there is no one who could look within. In the matter of God, good or bad, change or addition, none of it is real; these are only feelings. How can a person who is subject to the guṇas grasp what is beyond the guṇas? How can he describe it? Whatever anyone may say, those will be words spoken according to each one's own feelings, according to their own fancies.
In the vast, endless, fathomless ocean, you get water according to the vessel you dip. The religions of the world have fixed certain boundaries and imagine that these alone are vast. The delusions of these religions of their own making stand in the way of finding the principle that is beyond all limits. When one says Viṣṇu is great, another says Śiva is great. Yet another holds some other form to be great. They forget the truth that all these are one. All their describing is like the blind men describing the form of an elephant. The blind men each touched one limb, described it, and declared that that alone was the whole form of the elephant. To fasten on one part or another of the universal religion and think that religion is this way, or that way, is blindness. Only the form in which all religions are blended together is the universal religion. In all these limbs one blood, the one principle, flows — one Prema; that is the supreme truth. There is only one religion and that is the religion of love: there is one religion; it is the religion of Prema. Without recognising such an Indweller, they fasten on rites and ceremonies, on rules and observances, and descend into feuds and quarrels.
Judgements made with outward sight are not true. In the same way, people look at the Sai principle with outward sight and say Sai is like this, Sai is like that. They cannot recognise in the least the holiness in Sai, His truth, His eternal Satya. Sai's power is boundless, infinite; all powers are held in Sai's hand. Some, the educated and the learned, have outward sight, and so they see only these miracles, which merely show on the surface, and talk according to whatever comes into their heads, but they cannot see the Satya within. With the pride of “We alone are the educated” and the conceit that they alone know everything filling their heads, they cannot recognise the Sai who is in Brindavan; they fail to know the Sai principle.
Such people are only acquainted with books; they cannot be called scholars. Recognising Divinity is not possible for anyone. From that day to this, though Divinity is right beside them, though God has come very near, close at hand, though they are contemporaries of the Avatāra, their failing to recognise God is a most unfortunate thing.
My powers have no bounds: My principle has no limit whatever. Infinite power, infinitude, infinite personality are in My hands. The need has come for Me to speak of this Myself, and so I am speaking. Whatever you tell those who know nothing, they will not understand. Those who know need not be told again. To those who know and yet do not know, I cannot but give the visiting card of My miracles.