In plain words
I am Sai: know this for certain; give up attachment, leave off these efforts; my outward bond with you has now ended; no one, however great, can hold me.
Saying this, I rose and left. Ramana, Sastry and the others all tried to stop me. “Do not make efforts of this kind. What I want is not outward behaviour. A change of mind must come about in you. I have come only to reveal the principle of Satya that is in you. I am not this body. So no one is able to hold me. Follow me. If you follow, Satya will become known to you,” I said.
From the atom to the immense, all is filled by the Ātma principle alone. In the atom it appears as the atom; in the immense, as the immense. The oneness of the atom and the immense is itself Satya. Make enquiry into this. In the past Ramaṇa Maharṣi used to ask those who came to his āśrama, “Dear one! Who are you?” Whoever you are, that very one am I! Whoever I am, that very one is you! When I and you are one, what difference is left?
Subtle in the atom that is subtle, great in the thing that is great, shining everywhere as the Sākṣī of all, the Ātma itself is Brahman, Brahman itself is the Ātma.
The Ātma has no particular form. Now and then I tell people, “Dear one! You are not one; there are three in you. 1. The you that you think you are (the body), 2. the you that others think you are (the mind), 3. the real you (the Ātma).” Ātma means the power of consciousness. This is in all beings.
In those days nobody knew who Sai Baba was. When, after the declaration of the Avatāra, I came from Uravakonda to Puttaparthi, the villagers, hearing the name ‘Sai Baba’ for the very first time, thought I had taken a Muslim name.