In plain words
But what underlies all is one divinity. There is one root energy. Vedānta tells of this very thing:
That is full, this is full; from the full the full comes forth; taking the full from the full, the full alone remains.
Your own principle is fullness through and through, they said. We must understand to some extent the truth that lies in this fullness. We take fullness to mean that which lacks nothing at all. What we must regard as fullness is not the form and nature of a substance. The atomic wave… of its strength and capacity we must regard as sameness. You went to the market and brought home a kilo of jaggery. This jaggery is a lump this big. But you put it in a cupboard. One day you pinched off a little, put it in your coffee and drank it. Well, that is jaggery and this is jaggery. If you take this little jaggery from that jaggery and put it in coffee, it too is jaggery. After you take this lump from that one, what is left is jaggery too. Both of these are nothing but sweet. Pūrṇasya pūrṇam ādāya: if you take this jaggery from that jaggery, in that jaggery too there is sweetness. Pūrṇam evāvaśiṣyate. All is sweet. That sweetness itself is the full. That itself is quality. This lump of jaggery, … piece: all these are quantities. Looking at quantity, it …s to us as difference. When we look at quality, it is one. So we must … quality alone; quantity we must not take. That itself is fullness. If we want to recognise this fullness…, divinity, we must achieve it to some extent by deliberate effort.
If someone comes up and thinks, "God must appear before me," in what way will He appear? The one who longs to see God is nothing but a man of the narrow mind that holds that God takes on a special form and lives in a special place. In asking to be shown God, who is everywhere, God who is undivided, this narrow nature is plain to us right there. So what did Vedānta say? When all you see is God, you still ask to be shown God: how mad you are, man! What you see is all God. All this is the form of God. Everything is the form of God. In all things there is asti, bhāti, priyam. Then if you say, "Show me God," how can anyone show Him? So whatever substance you see, there is in it the presence of Mādhava, which is sweetness. Mysore pak, gulab jamun, barfi, palkova, mithai, kheer: whatever we make, if you say, "Show me the sugar in this," what is in the mithai is sugar, what is in the Mysore pak is sugar. These forms and names are different. That sugar is one, My dear. You have become foolish and long to see the sugar on its own.