In plain words
There is a fine example in the Bhāgavatam. Pōtana said, ‘What is spoken is the …, they say; He who has it spoken is Rāmabhadra, they say.’ He used the word ‘vāḍu’. ‘What I speak becomes …, they say.’ Here he used the word ‘nē’. He brought in two words, ‘vāḍu’ and ‘nē’; for the word …, ‘saḥ’, and for the word ‘nēnu’, ‘ahaṃ’: when the two join, it becomes ‘Sohaṃ’. Pōtana wrote the Bhāgavatam so that it would bring to mind the meaning ‘Sohaṃ’. God is Himself the air of this in-breath and out-breath.
While God shines within us and right before us in the form of the five elements, our … , we keep trying to search for God somewhere far away. Truly, are devotees … for God, or is God Himself searching for devotees? We must think that through well. In My view God … is searching for where a true devotee may be. So we need not search for God. ‘Paśya… napaśyati mūḍho.’ Seeing God before him in the very form of the universe, the fool thinks, God … ; He has not appeared!
The fifth is ākāśa. Ākāśa is what gives room to all. The quality of ākāśa is sound. Without sound nothing at all in the world is seen or heard. Everything is of the form of sound. The whole of creation has come about through sound. This very sound keeps sounding in man as the sound …haṃ, with the feeling ‘Haṃ Sohaṃ’. Where is this ākāśa? We imagine that ākāśa is … up above. What is up above is only clouds. Wherever there is sound, all through that place there is ākāśa. I am speaking. This too is ākāśa. Strike this table, and that too is ākāśa. The tāḷa struck while bhajans are sung is ākāśa as well. All the in-breaths and out-breaths are ākāśa. We spend our life within this very room, which is ākāśa.
The sixth is the sun. All beings are able to live only because of the sun. Through the energy that comes from the sun alone, all beings, animals, trees and crops go on growing … . Without the sun there is no world at all. His reflected form itself has taken on the … of Buddhi in man. Only through this, the sun’s, is Buddhi’s power of enquiry fostered … . Brain power too grows. Where the power of enquiry itself is lacking, man takes on a distorted form.
The seventh is the moon. The nature of the moon makes man calm. Its reflection is Manas.