In English
It is difficult to understand the Adhwaithic conception that "My reality and the Reality of the Universal are the same." "I am That"; this can be realised only through the sharp intellect and clear discrimination. This cannot be established in the consciousness, by external argument or efforts. One has to be an adept in and (meditation and enquiry). Once the illness of a rich lord was diagnosed by stranger monk as a defect in the eye and he was advised to cast his eyes on a single colour only. The lord collected all the paint he could get and all the painters of the region and daubed everything green - walls, roofs, fences, roads, tree stumps. When the monk returned after some months, he was surprised at the stranger appearance of the town. He asked the lord the reason for this and he was told that it was in accordance with his own prescription! The monk chided him for taking all that trouble and spending all that money, for, he could have gained the same end by putting on a pair of green glasses! When the vision is clarified into , then, all will be seen as the One Basic . No amount of external asceticism or attire can instill that conviction.