In plain words
Man is afraid to recognise even the Satya that is within himself! That is why his conduct, too, follows a divided path.
What is Satya? Is Satya the telling of what was seen just as it was seen, what was heard just as it was heard, what was said just as it was said? No, no! To hold out an ideal life for the uplift of society: that is the very nature of Satya. Satya is the very light that makes humanness shine forth.
To make the effort it takes for man to live as man: that alone is his life of Satya. Are the evil deeds done purely for selfish ends, from the break of day until lying down at night, the true nature of human beings? Through his own good deeds, man must demonstrate the Satya of society. He must show the principle of the Ātma reflected in himself to be the reflection of society. This is the very mark of a life of Satya.
The feeling in the mind, the utterance in the word, the practice in the deed: the three must be closely bound together; all three must be made one. To think one thing, to say another and to do yet another: manasyanyat, vacasyanyat, karmaṇyanyat durātmanām. So if divinity is to be made manifest in humanness, we must follow the saying “manasyekaṃ, vacasyekaṃ, karmaṇyekaṃ mahātmanām.”
In the world today man goes on craving what is artificial and forgetting Satya. Toward the things that are Satya and eternal, man lets hostility run wild. Satya is attained only when we recognise that divinity is the one power dwelling in all: “Īśāvāsyam idaṃ sarvam.” In every living being, in man, and in every atom too, divinity abides, having taken on form. Though we cut open a banyan seed and examine it in many particular ways, the great power within that seed does not appear to us. Yet when we nurture it, it takes shape as a mighty tree. We must recognise that in the holy land of Bhārata every single place and every single atom is full of meaning, is divine. This is the very mark of the theist. Even one who says, ‘I am not a theist, I am an atheist,’ is a theist deep within; without the feeling ‘asti’, ‘it is’, he could not be an atheist.
And now, what is My Satya? It is not possible for anyone at all to prove the Satya of Sathya Sai. Sathya Sai’s resolve is this: “Yogakṣemaṃ: lokāssamastāssukhino bhavantu”; all should be happy; all should enjoy well-being; all should fulfil their duties. Everyone must recognise the Satya that, apart from longing for the happiness of the world in this way and bringing it about, He does not strive in the least for any happiness of His own. Recognising divinity is not so easy. But when time, karma, cause and duty come together, you will very soon come to understand this Satya too.