In plain words
If you say Sai, there is another who is a devotee of Rāma. There is a devotee of Kṛṣṇa. Do not use names at all. If you like it so much, say namaskāram. When something falls down and someone picks it up and hands it over, people say ‘thanks sir’. Why this foreign stuff? How fine it would be to say namaste in its place! In this sacred culture of ours, the culture of Bhārata, every single word has been given so much value. Ours is a culture. We must never forget the principle of this culture. It is the eternal Vedic culture. It never changes. It is eternally true. However many ages change, however many worlds move, culture will stand forever. Keep God in your heart and go on remembering Him with Prema. Then there will be no quarrels or tumults of any kind in the world. These quarrels come from the differences of ‘I’ and ‘you’. All are one! ‘All are one My dear son, be alike to every one,’ said Jesus. We must like everyone. This is our culture of Bhārata. What did they say in the Veda?
May He protect us both together; may He nourish us both together; may we work with vigour together; may our study be full of light; may we never hate each other.
Mingling together let us move about; mingling together let us grow; mingling together let us increase wealth and friendship, strength and virtue; mingling together let us nourish the understanding we have gained; mingling together let us live as friends, with plenty.
First of all, the Veda taught equality and oneness.
Students! However long it may be, we must live not with these narrow feelings but with broad ones, and take a vow to proclaim to the whole world the Divinity that is oneness.