In English
There is a small example for this. From a big hill, we pick out one rock and an artisan chisels out of this uncut rock a beautiful figure of . After some effort, he will produce out of this rock a very beautiful figure of . Choosing a proper and auspicious time, he will take this figure of and install it on a pedestal in the temple and will go on worshipping it. Here we notice that a part of the rock has been taken out and has been installed in the temple and is being worshipped by various people. The little remnants, the pieces of stone which are left in the rock after chiselling the figure of , are left in the same place as the rock. No one cares for those remnant pieces of rock. Nobody worships them and nobody thinks of those pieces as of any importance. Here, in our thought, this portion of the figure becomes one which can be worshipped as God, whereas the rest of the rock from which it has come is looked upon as useless pieces. But these pieces of stones and their background is not like that. The remnant pieces of rock will keep on proclaiming, “” and seem to say, “That figure of which you are worshipping is me, I am that.” A portion of the rock appears to us as if we can worship it, and the other portion of the rock appears to us as valueless. What is being worshipped as deity is something which has been created by you. The true form from which it has been created is the original piece of rock. As in that analogy, what we see in this world as a form is something which has come out of the source rock. The form of in this case has been formed from a rock. But the essence, the basic substance in the form-less, is the same in the source rock as in the figure. Whether you take the formless rock, the source of the idol of , or the idol itself and beat it, the kind of sound that will come out is exactly the same in both cases. So , which is the form of sound or , and the sound, the , are both one and the same. Those who propound have been ex-plaining this truth by saying that the combination of “” is , and is nothing but . Either in the gross form or in the subtle form, or in the supreme form of the , what is contained is the same and it is .