In plain words
For God alone is in everyone; the one Ātma principle alone is in all.
God is one; the names differ
So, ‘ekaṃ sat viprā bahudhā vadanti’: many have gone on speaking of that which is, in many ways. Look. There is water in this cup. An Englishman comes. He calls it water. A Hindi speaker comes and calls it pānī. A Tamil comes and calls it tannī. A Sanskrit speaker comes and calls it udakam. A Telugu speaker comes and calls it nīru. All these names are given to one substance; they are only a change of language. So the divine Prema principle is in everyone. It is not something that changes. It is not something that wanes. So, whoever says it, it does not come by force. It arises from within us. Divinity is what is present in all things. This is not manyness. It is oneness, oneness alone. Keeping this oneness in mind, whenever we find time in our life, to go on doing sacred actions is a most excellent action. You need not give up any action. At all times, do all actions. But hold the feeling: ‘All karma for the pleasure of God.’ Whatever you do, all of it is an offering to God. Everything turns into something filled with God. There is not one thing with you that is without God. All is God. God is with you, beside you, in your home, in your sight, in all things. What is, is one. But it does not appear to us. But it does not come within our grasp. Just because He cannot be grasped, just because He is not seen, one cannot say that God does not exist at all.
The mind alone is the cause of bondage and liberation
So, I said yesterday. There is air all around us. Without that air we cannot live. But we cannot see that air. We cannot catch the air. Just because it cannot be caught, just because it cannot be seen, how foolish is it to say that it is not there?