In English
It is said “.” One who has the knowledge of will become identical with . As he was continuously thinking of , he was transformed into . Citizens who came to garland could not recognise who was and who was . They put all the garlands on thinking that he was . was quite smart and was quite alive to the situation. So, he was telling the citizens, please garland my brother and not me. was so intensely devoted to that people could not tell who was and who was . What we should notice here is that ’s devotion was apparent and was always seen easily. had always attributes and qualities, whereas was attributeless and without . Here the form-less and the form are like the two legs. Here is an example for this. This is a pillow. There is a cloth covering the pillow. Inside the cloth is cotton. There is cotton inside and there is cotton on the outside in the form of a cloth. The cloth is the quality and has a form. The cotton is without quality. Here we see that the formless is contained within the form. In the outer cloth, cotton is contained. In Vedantic parlance, we can say that the cloth and the cotton are one and the same. has demonstrated this simple truth.