॥॥
In plain words
This root and support is not something we can gain from the Vedas, or the Itihāsas, or the Purāṇas, or the Upaniṣads, or the Gītās. All these are only supports for the outer world. This outer world is forever spurring on Dvaita alone. Mine and my people: just this much makes narrow feeling grow. When we recognise the oneness that is in everything, that itself turns into true Advaita. In this feeling of Advaita, what our organisations are fit to practise is service alone. The Ātma principle that is in all is one. One man may be given the name Rāma. Another may be called Madhusūdana. But these are names given; none of them is the form of the Ātma. They are names given to the body that was born. But there is a principle that is neither born nor dies. Its name is "I". Truly, the name of God is not Rāma, Kṛṣṇa, Sai. Those are names given to the body. The name God truly has is Aham. "I, I, I": that is His name. That name "I" belongs to everyone. Even among all of you, if one asks who is so-and-so Rāma, he raises his hand: "I." If one asks who is so-and-so Kṛṣṇa, he raises his hand. They say, "I, I." Rāma's form and name are different; Kṛṣṇa's form and name are different. But in everyone, the "I, I" has come out the same. So I is every where. "I" remains as "I" itself. Today, because there are no people teaching Advaita in this way, people stay in Dvaita all their lives and do not go on even as far as Viśiṣṭādvaita. However long we do such sādhanas as these, we cannot attain the right state. We cannot experience it. So every man must keep the feeling of Advaita as his aim, enter society with the feeling of Dvaita, and recognise the truth "Service alone is my worship." In "We are servants" there is divinity; in getting oneself called "I am the master" there is no divinity. What is bound up with this feeling of Aham ends in distortion. What is bound up with the feeling of the Ātma receives merit. Where have we set out from and come? We have set out from sādhana and come. We have come as sevaks. We must become servants. From this servanthood we must attain divinity. So all the ancient ṛṣis first took up servanthood and gladly attained divinity. Not merely servants: if Ahaṅkāra is to be rooted out first of all, we must become servants. That is why Gopanna too once said:
I must become the servant of servants. I must do service to these servants. Together with wife and children, at every hour,
Not just I alone. My wife, my children, all must become servants of servants. Only then can we get away from our bondage. This is the path of Bhakti.
Śaṅkara went on proclaiming the creed of Advaita. He uttered, "Satyaṃ jñānam anantaṃ brahma."