In plain words
So long as bhūtākāśa is in your sight, you remain bound to forms and names.
You study so many subjects, but you cannot recognise what bhūtākāśa is, what cittākāśa is, what cidākāśa is. Besides, you think you have no need of this Vedānta. This is not Vedānta. These are true sayings that you must know and practise in daily life. Though created things appear in great number in bhūtākāśa, in all of them there is one truth that does not change. That is the Ātma. Every man keeps using the word ‘I’. A small child says ‘I’. After he becomes a young man, too, he says ‘I’. After he becomes old, too, he says ‘I’. In this way the states of childhood, youth and old age change, but ‘I’ does not change, does it! That unchanging “I” is the Ātma. Unable to recognise the divinity that is in himself, man runs after physical and worldly things. This is the mark of pravṛtti. The Ātma belongs to nivṛtti. It is because man carries the marks of pravṛtti that he is unable to know himself.
That is this, this is that
All that you see is the form of God. This hall is the form of God. All of you are forms of God. Even so, you still hope to see God. Is this not foolishness? That is why it was said, “The fool, though he sees, does not see.” A small example of this: the hostel children see our ‘Sai Gita’ every day. It does not seem much of a wonder to them. But when they go to the Bandipur forest or the Mudumalai forest, even if they see an elephant's tail there they gaze at it in great wonder and are very delighted. In the same way, though you see God in so many people here, you feel no wonder; but if somewhere a person with three heads appears, you swell with joy, saying, “We have seen the cosmic form!”