”The
ignorant man makes a make
belief
God and worships him,
the
'knower' recognises the God
of
Gods (that is, his own Self)
and
then offers his worship.
Shankaracharya
called that
Inner
Self, the fourth body,
"the
original illusion".
The
God may have infinite
number
of names yet the Truth
is
only one. For example
if
a child call his father 'uncle',
does
it mean that the man
loses
his fatherhood?
Through
the medium of this God
one
will understand the natural
state
of the Absolute-Parameshwar.
If
this God becomes steady, one
will understand Parabrahman.
This
God (consciousness) is in
the
form of the power of
knowing,
the willpower and
the
power of matter. Hence he
is
constantly moving.
The
source of all this universe
is
this Inner Self, yet the true
source of this world is this
phase
of 'sprouting knowingness',
which
has no head or tail.
On
one side the world is created
and the other side everything
vanishes. If ones nature is known,
the Inner Self disappears.
The steady nature is always there
and
the unsteady on perishes.”
From
the book "Amrutlaya"