In plain words
There is no place where God is not. This whole world is … filled with God alone. I had to make this very point in Madras. The world is an effect. God is … . So this whole world is a form bound together as effect and cause. God in the form of the cause and the world in the form of the effect: the two are one. Without the effect there is no cause. Without the cause there is no effect. These two are bound so that neither can be without the other. … support. If there is no thread in this cloth, it is not cloth. Where there is cloth, the thread does not go … . In the world there may be a cause without its effect, but an effect without a cause does not … . A father may be there without sons, but for a son to be in this world without a father there is no … . Fish cannot live without water. There may be water without fish. God Himself is the embodiment of the cause. This very cause pervades everywhere in the world, which is the form of the effect. How is God present? What form has God taken?
The very first is water. Without this water there is no life at all. This water … second name is jīvana, life. So our very life is water. Water itself is the very first form of … . In one place water may come at ten feet; in another place we can see water right on … . In some other places, however many hundreds of feet … , no water appears. But there is no place in this world without water. Above … or below, water is everywhere. That is why water is the very first form of God … . In God, the embodiment of the eight glories, the very first form is this water.
The second is air. What every man takes in and lets out is air. We experience air through what is called this …-breath and out-breath. This is oxygen. This oxygen reaches man in … ways and teaches him from within as the Indweller, ‘Sohaṃ, Sohaṃ’: So – That, haṃ – This, I; That is I, That is … , That is God, I am God. In this way, I myself am God … : in one day, that is within 24 hours, 21,600 times it teaches you in … form that you yourself are God. The second form of the Paramātma is air.
The third is the earth. Of the whole globe, three parts are water itself … . What remains is earth. It is on this earth that every living being is born, grows and … .