In plain words
In the principle called sāyujya, oneness alone is ours. But difference comes to nothing. The Godāvarī, the Kṛṣṇā, the Yamunā, the Kāverī: all these go on flowing. But the forms of their streams look different. Their tastes too become different. After they all reach the ocean, all these rivers lose their forms, names and tastes and take on the form, name and taste of the ocean itself. That is: Brahmavid brahmaiva bhavati. When he merges in it, he too takes on that form. When all our saṅkalpas merge in the Ātma, we take on the form of the Ātma itself. So there is nothing in this world that is not the Ātma. Though all is God, we do not look at it with the vision of God. We are looking with the eye of the world. As long as we look with a worldly eye, we will not understand the principle of the Ātma. A small example. As long as we look at this in the form of a tumbler, it looks like a tumbler. What is this tumbler made of? It is made of silver. When we look with the eye that sees silver, we do not think of the tumbler. Another one. We have gone to Tirupati, or to some other holy place. We see an image. As long as we keep our eyes on the image, we do not know at all what material the image is made of. When we set this on what is seen alone, only the form is seen. But when we keep our eyes on what underlies it, asking what that form is made of, the stone is seen, not the image. So today we are casting our sight on the world made of forms and names. That is why houses, walls, trees, forests, rivers, all of them are seen. But when we recognise the principle that underlies them all, all of these take the form of oneness. All trees are wood. All mountains are stone. The whole earth is clay. The whole body is only blood; all of these are the form of the five elements. Where do these five elements reach? They are parts that are in the Ātma. So if we understand the feeling of the Ātma well, we will understand all of these easily.
However many kinds of ornaments there are, we come to know that what underlies them all is gold alone.