In plain words
It became one only by the joining together of threads. Where did these threads come from? They came from cotton. First is the cotton, second the thread, third the cloth. These three, joined, are one! In the same way, You are not one person, but three - the one you think you are, the one others think you are, the one you really are. That is why Kṛṣṇa said, ‘Mamaivāṃśo jīvaloke jīvabhūtaḥ sanātanaḥ.’ That means all are parts of God! You are all searching for God. But you need not search. You yourself are God. ‘When the lamp is burning in the house, why go to others' houses for fire?’ In just the same way, when you yourself are God, why go searching for God again?!
Merely by identifying with the body and with the senses, man is sinking into the delusion of ‘I, mine’. From identifying with the body, attachment arises. How long does this body last? Only as long as life is in it do you cherish the body. The moment life goes, you throw it mercilessly into the fire. Whose is that body then? “This is my body”, “my mind”, “my Buddhi”, “my hand”, “my leg” ..... Of everything you say, ‘mine, mine, mine’. When you say ‘my body’, the body is one thing and you are another. Then who are you? The body is not you, the senses are not you, the Buddhi is not you. You are you alone. That itself is the ‘I’. That is one only. ‘That which is, is one; the wise speak of it in many ways.’ When a shape is added to that ‘aham’ (I), that itself is Ahaṅkāra. If you cut the head off that ‘I’, it becomes a ‘cross’. Christians worship that very thing. That is, if you cut off Ahaṅkāra, you become yourself. You are not a human being. You yourself are God. So there is no need at all to search for God. Wherever you look, God is there. This cloth is God itself! This flower is God itself. This table is God itself. Everything is God. Only through ignorance have the differences of ‘I, you’ come about. At no time are I and you separate. I am not Sathya Sai Baba. I am I alone! ‘Sathya Sai Baba’ is only the name given to this body.