In plain words
The sights the eye sees and the sounds the ears hear are all worldly. All the senses speak only of what can be seen; they do not speak of what cannot be seen. You must search for what lies beyond this seen,” I said. From that day on, wherever I went, these very words!
“All the things of Prakṛti are subject to change; they are not permanent. You think that things which vanish are real. This is the great mistake you are making,” and in this way I taught them Vedānta. H.S. Venkataramana, to Seshama Raju: “Do not be anxious. He is going very deep into the spiritual principle. It is beyond anyone's power to make him out. Allow some time,” he said. Until then H.S. Ramana used to call me ‘Rāju’. But from then on he began calling me ‘Gurujī’. Saying ‘Gurujī’, he took hold of my feet and prayed. Everyone was amazed that so learned a man was holding the feet of that boy. Then he said, “Not I alone, not you alone: a time will come when this whole world will hold his feet.”
In the house next door lived an astrologer called Ramanarayana Sastry. They sent for him and went on telling him what I had said. As he listened and listened, tears streamed from his eyes. Those tears fell straight onto Sai Baba's feet. From that day everyone in Uravakonda gave me the name ‘Sathya Sai Baba’. This name is nothing new; it is an old one! This body's name is Satya. All the sights that are shown are Sai Baba's sights. So, putting the two together, they named me ‘Sathya Sai Baba’. I said that I had come to proclaim Satya. “How can you say you are Sai Baba?” someone asked. At once I took some flowers from a basket that was there and scattered them on the ground. The flowers formed the letters ‘Sai Baba’. Everyone was struck with wonder. No one could utter a word. I said, “This is not a name I gave myself; it is the very name you gave! I have no particular name at all.”