In plain words
‘As the feeling, so the outcome.’ As our feeling is, just such is the result that comes. There is no greatness in doing good in return to those who have done good. We must do good even to the one who does harm. ‘Skilled in doing good to the one who does harm, without reckoning the wrong: Sai.’ We must treat well even the one who has done us harm. That indeed is the mark of a true human being.
See yourself in the person before you!
Whomever you see, you must see as nothing but God. ‘God in human form.’ He is in human form, God. Look at any picture you like: God is in the form of a man alone. The one who plays the part of Rāma is a man! The one who plays the part of Sītā is a man! All are embodiments of the Ātma! Relationships, kinships and names vary on account of the body, yet the Ātma principle dwelling in all is one and the same. “The one Ātma, the inner Ātma of all beings.” This feeling of the one Ātma we must keep fostering from childhood. It is very necessary to nourish such equal vision from a tender age itself. You think it is hard. But there is nothing that brings more happiness than that. If someone you regard as an opponent comes before you, greet him with folded hands and ask, ‘How are you, brother?’ He too will say, ‘How are you, brother?’ What is the reason? You, to him: ‘Brother!’ Because you say it, he too will look on you just as a ‘brother’. According to your feeling and your speech, either hostility or trust towards you grows in the other person. You must see the principle of the one Ātma in everyone. Bodies differ; the Manas differs, the Buddhi differs, the citta differs. But the principle of the Ātma is one and the same. When you can see that principle of the one Ātma in all, you too become the very form of God. All bodies are like mirrors. “In these mirrors I myself am seeing myself. All these are nothing but my reflections”: so you must feel. Whomever you see, you must feel as if you are seeing yourself in a ‘mirror’.