In plain words
But the Ātma principle that dwells in all is one. It is just this the Yajurveda has gone on teaching: recognise this truth.
So the Yajurveda does not mean that we need learn it all and chant it by heart. We need not study it. Only when we drink in its essence and give up what we do not need will you become those who have grasped this truth. We go to the market and buy a mosambi fruit. We have bought this mosambi, but we cut it and take only its juice. Its peel and its seeds we throw away. Do we eat all the peel, saying we paid money for it? In the same way, we must give up the bad qualities that are to be given up. The good qualities that are to be taken up we must take up with joy. But today, through the influence of Kali, people take up only bad qualities. They give up good qualities. They give up good company. They take up bad company. They bring in bad feelings. All good feelings they push to the back. This itself they think a new fashion. It is not so. It is a great sin. In time to come they will have to go through what comes of it in many ways. So recognise such truth, enter the Sai institutions, through them understand fully the principle of this service, and know the truth that whomever we serve, it is my God alone we are serving.
Though people take each of the Vedas in many ways, each in their own way, the Vedas have ever so many meanings. Among these many meanings, to take up only the wrong meaning and forget the real one: this is not right. What is the right meaning? God is in all. You must move about with the feeling that divinity is in everyone, without hurting anyone.
Tomorrow we shall come to know about the Sāmaveda. The essence that is in the Vedas is all one. But so that you may understand, I have to teach in this way. Embodiments of the divine Ātma! What you must recognise is one thing alone. Understand the Sai principle well. There is no selfishness of any kind. The purity brought into the Sai institutions cannot become impure even for a moment. Such a selfless institution is nowhere in the world. Nor will there be. In this institution there is not the least chance to misuse even its many small things. Whatever I do, whatever I see, whatever I say, I set all of it on the sacred path. But ignorant fools think there is some kind of selfishness in this. What are we doing for this selfishness? We are building up new educational institutions; is there a chance anywhere in the world to study without fees of any kind, anywhere at all? Say it yourselves. The moment we put children into a primary school, they take ten thousand, five thousand, eight thousand as a levy and only then give the child a seat. Not so. Not so. In our educational institutions, from the first class up to the Ph.D., we do not take a single naya paisa.