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Chapter 7
As in water-element, the sea, the river, rain, dew, fog, steam and cloud etc., all having lost their identity (individuality) become one, similarly in 'Vasudevah sarvam' (all is God), all spiritual disciplines having lost their identity become one as God. As in water-element there is no difference of forms, similarly in ' Vasudevah sarvam' there is no difference of opinions. Differences in opinions (sects) cause dissatisfaction but in 'Vasudevah sarvam', as there are no differences of opinions, so all are totally satisfied. In ' Vasudevah sarvam' there is neither a Yogi, nor a Jnani nor a Premi—so the exalted soul, who has realized it, is very rare indeed.
Water is changed into different forms such as snow, fog, cloud, hail, rain, river, pond and sea etc. If snow is put in a deep frying pan and the frying pan is put on fire, the snow melts into water. Then water is evaporated and then the steam by becoming atoms becomes shapeless. Water assumes the form of fog, it assumes the form of a cloud, the same becomes shapeless, the same assumes the form of snow, the same assumes the shape of hail, the same in the form of rain falls on the earth, the same assumes the form of a river and the same water assumes the form of the sea. In spite of assuming so many forms, the water as an element remains the same. Similarly God assumes numberless forms. As water being very cold turns into snow or ice and becoming liquid by heat turns into steam (vapour) and then is changed into the form of atoms; similarly God by getting cold in the form of ignorance, appears in the form of inert world, and by the heat in the form of knowledge appears in the form of subtle and sentient God. Water may appear in the form of snow or vapour or cloud etc., but essentially it is only water. It is nothing else besides water. Similarly God may appear in the form of the world and in other forms but He is only God. There is none else besides God.
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