In plain words
Puruṣa alone remains.
The Broad Feeling That All Is Īśvara Belongs to the People of Bhārata
Today there is no effort to take Prakṛti to Puruṣa. You may worship a picture as God but not God as a picture. Saying ‘This stone is God, this paper is God, this clod is God, this clay is God’, take even clay up to the state of God. Take even stone up to the state of God, take the picture close to God; but do not bring God down by saying ‘God is stone, God is paper, God is clay’. In our culture of Bhārata they said ‘Īśvaraḥ sarvabhūtānāṃ’. In saying that divinity is in all beings, what the people of Bhārata hold is that even stone is God Himself; it is not saying that God is stone. So, many Westerners, all of them, look on with ridicule: ‘What! They set up God as a stone and worship Him; they set up God as a picture and worship Him!’ But it is not setting up God as a stone and worshipping Him. We see even stone as God. We worship the tree as God. We worship cattle as God. We worship even the snake, whose very form is poison, as God. So the broad feeling that all is Īśvara belongs to the people of Bhārata. Women worship the tulasī plant as a form of God. Women worship the cow as a form of God. Not only this: our people of Bhārata worship the aśvattha tree. The people of Bhārata worship even the lion. The people of Bhārata worship even the tiger. We must understand that the people of Bhārata worship with the feeling that God is present in all living beings; the people of Bhārata worship so, and not with blind faith.
So the culture of Bhārata is one that gives a most sacred inner meaning; and the people of Bhārata need not hang their heads in the least over what others think, that the people of Bhārata are walking the path of Ajñāna. The sacred histories of the people of Bhārata can never be told enough, however much one tells them, and their inner meaning is boundless in form; so these summer classes were begun so that you, our young people of Bhārata, recognise the authority of the Bhārata, the Bhāgavata, the itihāsas and purāṇas, the Upaniṣads, and the life stories too of great souls rich in experience, and set about following them to some extent.