In plain words
These delusions about the body, these feelings of the mind: because of these alone people see one another as separate. That is what brings these troubles. We ourselves are the cause of these troubles. Good and bad, both, are born in our own mind. The mind makes us play many kinds of games. So, however much you study and however many degrees you obtain, first of all take the Ātma principle as one. ‘Brahman is one only, without a second’; ‘The Real is one; the wise call it by many names’: keep this truth safe in your heart. If you regard anyone as an enemy, that is a change in the Prema you hold for him, not a change in him. Everything in this world is ‘reflection, reaction, resound’. But the ‘reality’ is one. If we think this way, we attain Ānanda, however great. “Swami is always laughing with joy!” you say in wonder. For me it is always Ānanda! The reason: in my sight all are one. The joy of all of you is my food. So attain that joy. The other day the children put on a drama about this. Seeing it gave me great joy.
Out of oneness came manyness; in manyness there is oneness
What is in all is oneness alone! ‘I, We’, we say. Where did ‘We’ come from? From ‘I’ itself. If there is no ‘I’, there is no ‘We’. ‘I’ is one alone. But we use the word ‘I’ out of attachment to the body. When you strike across this ‘I’, it becomes a ‘cross’. That is, the ‘cross’ tells us to give up attachment to the body. So we must hold the feeling that all are one. Think, “All these are my brothers and sisters.” There is no one anywhere but ‘brothers and sisters’. And these ‘brothers and sisters’ are not separate either. The two together are one. If we enquire in every way, what exists in this world is one, only one. You think there is manyness in this world. But there is no manyness; what exists is one. If we make that oneness firm in our hearts, we see that alone in everything.