In plain words
Search through all the books and see: Sathya Sai's word is the way of Satya. Hunt through all the Vedas and see: Sathya Sai's word is the way of Satya. Read every one of the śāstras and see: Sathya Sai's word is the way of Satya. Chant the Gāyatrī mantra with all its grandeur: Sathya Sai's word is the way of Satya. Keeping the dirt in your mind just as it is, whatever you do, what fruit is there, foolish mind?
The day we clear away the impurity of our mind, that day we can grow in the right way.
The Bhagavad Gītā did not say, "Take refuge in Me." Surrender to yourself. Who is meant by "you"? That is the very truth we must recognise. People recite the śloka "Tvameva mātā ca pitā tvameva". You are mother, you are father, you are my guru. You are my friend: so we keep saying. You are mother, you are father, you are guru, you are friend; but in the end the "you" is what remains. You may be mother; who are you? You are father, you may be father; who are you? So instead of "You are father, you are mother, you are God", saying "You are I" settles it. We must come to the state of "You are I". This very thing is the essence of every religion. The root of all the śāstras. The goal of all the Vedas. So you are I. It is not that I am one and you another. Why needlessly multiply all these bonds: this mother, father, guru, God? You do not look after the mother you have. Yet, saying you alone are mother, you go off without looking after me either. Little by little we must keep reducing all these bonds. So we must try to recognise the oneness of the two. Not only the oneness of the two: we must recognise the oneness that is in all.
This is the One who rules, the inner Ātma of all beings. The Ātma principle is one. Who are your own? Who are mine? How long does this bond of relationship last? It is gone in a moment. What lasts for ever, however long, is the Ātma principle. The Ātma alone is my own. Instead of forming that eternal bond, we foster ties and kinships as fleeting as bubbles on water; this is purely the sway of Māyā. We know everything. We have seen it all. Yet we keep stumbling about in this dark room. In the dark, knocks are bound to come. We must drive that darkness away. We must make the light grow. Only then will our troubles end. We must recognise the truth that as long as you live in dark rooms, you will not escape the knocks. "An eternal part of Me, in the world of the living, becomes the jīva": that is, we must have faith in the divinity that says it is My own part in everyone. You are not a part of the jīva, nor a part of the five elements. You are My part. When the impurity in the mind is driven away, He reveals Himself of His own accord. For a man to be able to know himself, he must first drive away the impurity in his mind. Feelings of hatred must be rooted out.