Passage 4

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In plain words

“Brother-in-law! There are no two separate beings called the divine and the demonic. They have been divided into two aspects according to differences of guṇa. Guṇas are imaginings. I have told you about these before this: the potter makes pots, pans and jars out of clay. Those vessels he made were not there in the clay beforehand, of its own nature. What is natural is the clay; pots, pans and jars are imagined forms. Imagined forms and names are what are called guṇas. The support is the clay and the supported is the pots, is it not? The clay, the support, is natural; the pots, the supported, are imaginings. So the natural is My svarūpa. The pots are not in Me, but I am in the pots. That is, the guṇas are not in Me, but I am in the guṇas too. Yet if one tries to separate the pots from the clay, that cannot be done.”

Sri Satchitananda Sai