In plain words
Longing to win the good fortune of beholding Brahman, where will you go searching, O foolish mind? It is within you; seek it there. This word of Sai is a word that tells the truth.
Embodiments of Prema! Deluded into thinking that God is separate from you, you search in many ways for the sight of God; you keep up japa, dhyāna, bhajans, saṅkīrtana and many such sādhanas. But divinity is not something to be found by searching outside. It is right within you. So turn your vision inward, and make the effort it takes to behold divinity right within you.
Rama Raju, the Municipal Chairman of Bellary, took us to the Virūpākṣa temple at Hampi (in October 1940). When we got there, I insisted that I would not go in. Then Seshama Raju (the elder brother): “We will go inside, have darśan of Virūpākṣa and come back. You stay right here by our luggage,” he said. They went into the temple. But at the time of the camphor ārati, in the sanctum, in place of Virūpākṣa, they saw ‘Satyam’! Seshama Raju grew angry. “He was told to sit outside by the luggage, so why has this fellow come in here? Is it not wrong to enter the sanctum?” he thought, and came out to look. ‘Satyam’ was sitting right there outside! He went back in and looked. ‘Satyam’ was there as well! Still his doubt was not cleared. To his wife: “Go outside and stand guard by ‘Satyam’.