In English
This morning, some explanation of the two words and was given to you. stands for a large number of different persons. stands for a wide variety of manifestations of the world. You have been taught that just as the manifestations of the material world are very many, so also the manifestations of the or the soul are manifold. But if we really enquire into this from the point of view of the meaning that we are aiming at, then can be only one. He cannot be many. The or the soul is simply the manifestation of the Divine. On the other hand, the manifestation of matter, of the material things, is this world. This , or the world, is something that is filled with all the five elements. All these are destructible. They are not permanent. But what is clear, what is clean, what is indestructible and what is effulgent and shining, is only one and that is the soul or . Our have described this soul as something that has no attributes, as something which is superior, as something which is eternal and permanent, as something which does not change at all. All these have come from one, the Self.