Passage 7

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In plain words

But Sai Baba is beyond caste and creed. ‘Wherever you look, there He is seen.’

While the Vaiṣṇavas keep saying Viṣṇu alone is great, while the Śaivas say Śambhu is great, while the Gāṇapatyas declare Gaṇapati is great, while the learned say Śāradā is great, while those Muslims say Allah is the mighty one, while all the Śāktas say Śakti, while my devotees say that I am great, while some say all are one, in accord with every faith, the true Brahman is one: this you must declare. What more than this shall I make known? O members of this gathering, counted among the good and virtuous!

Each person has spoken of divinity in a different way. But the Ātma principle in all names and forms is one alone! Today one must explain this in a way the world can understand.

Look, some houses can be seen over there. What is seen first is the veranda. Inside is a wall, and behind it a room. Going further in there is the kitchen; going in a little further still, the bathroom. A name for each room. Where did all these names come from? Those names came only from dividing the rooms off one from another. In the same way, through attachment to the body you set up separate ties of kinship, one as mother, one as father, one as brother. These are things you yourselves have made up! Take down these partition walls.