In plain words
That is why the whole universe is the form of Viṣṇu. So whatever you see, feel that you are seeing God. No wave without the atom called God can exist in this world. So human forms are nothing but particles of this atom. The principle at the root of all these is the principle of the Ātma itself. So the Ātma, where is it? It is not something that exists apart. It is everywhere: in the body, in the Manas, in the antaḥkaraṇa, in the prāṇa. That is why this is constant integrated awareness. So they called it. This itself is the true principle of the Ātma. It is in all things. Giving different results, it appears to us in different forms. There is current. Entering this mike, it carries My voice far. The same current enters the bulb and gives us light. The same current enters this fan and gives Me cool air. The same current enters the … in the kitchen and cooks. The same current enters another machine and does work. … does work. This one blows air. That one gives light. This one gives sound. Another keeps sound shut in. For all of them the current alone is the basis, isn't it? In the same way, entering every limb and every form, it brings about different results for us.
Though divinity pervades everywhere, we must also gain some strength to recognise its form of Satya. We must gain the strength and capacity to bear it, endure it and experience it. To hope to experience this without that is madness. So to recognise that sameness and to experience that divinity, we must do some sādhanas with deliberate effort. This they called self-effort. Without self-effort we cannot reach the sacred principle direct. To catch a fish in the water, you take a small stick, tie a line to the stick, tie a float in the middle, set a hook at the tip, fix a little piece of meat on it and drop it in the water; then, to eat that piece of meat, the fish comes up to it. Going to eat it, it gets caught on this hook. When it is caught on the hook, it thrashes this way and that. When it moves so, the float on top goes under. Then, sure the fish is caught, the fellow pulls it up. Even sitting on the bank, if you want to bring the fish in the water up onto the bank, there must be this sādhana. If we, living a worldly life, want to catch the Paramātma who is beyond the world, we must work with deliberate effort at the means that catches Him. When we tie the line called the cord of Bhakti to the stick called the body, set the float called vigilance, show the meat called Prema and fit the thorn called Vairāgya, divinity is caught for us.