In plain words
Only when there is unity does purity come about in our heart. When purity comes about, then divinity arises. Unity, purity, divinity: these three are closely bound up with one another.
There is divinity in every human being. Without divinity there can be no life of the jīva. ‘God comes in human form.’ He alone is a man who is joined with divinity. But you are not learning what humanness is. You think a man is merely one who has a human shape. Though the bodies are separate, the principle of the Ātma in every man is one. Unable to recognise this unity, many divide mankind in many ways. This is the reason there are so many kinds of quarrels, differences, troubles and sorrows in the world today! When we recognise the truth that the divinity in all is one, there will be no differences or troubles of any kind. So first of all we must keep divinity in view and install it in our heart. If we forget divinity and make multiplicity grow, only suffering will come to us. We must not fix our eyes only on the name and form of persons, saying, ‘This is Rāmanna, this is Lakṣmanna’; we must fix them on the principle of the Ātma in all. There is the Ātma in this one, there is the Ātma in that one. In this way we must hold firm in our heart the truth that divinity is in all. Unless we look on all as forms of God, however many japas, tapas, yajñas and yāgas we perform, there is no use in them.
You have a name. Who gave you that name? Your parents gave it. It is only a name that was given, not a name you were born with. What is equally in all is the principle of the Ātma. That is the principle of Rāma, who delights all. Say Ātma, say Brahman, say Oṃkāra, say ‘Rāma’: it is all one. But the man of today gives up the feeling ‘I am Brahman’ and, out of Ahaṅkāra, thinks, ‘I am Rāmayya’, ‘I am Kṛṣṇayya.’ That is why differences of many kinds arise. If we bow to the person before us and say ‘Rāma’ in our mind, that salutation goes to Rāma.