In plain words
God alone is beyond the pairs of opposites such as heat and cold, pleasure and pain, gain and loss, blame and praise!
‘Dvandvātītaṃ.’ What is this pair of opposites? Beyond heat and cold. Beyond pleasure and pain. Beyond gain and loss. Beyond blame and praise. What is this principle, so far beyond them? No one other than God alone has this right. That is why ‘dvandvātītaṃ’. He is the true Guru.
God pervades everything, like the sky
‘Gagana sadṛśaṃ!’ Where is gagana? It pervades everything. Wherever you look, gagana is there. Gagana does not mean ākāśa. What does ākāśa mean? ‘Ākāśaṃ gaganaṃ śūnyaṃ.’ It is not something that can be seen. We look up and think, ‘This is ākāśa.’ That is not ākāśa. It is what gives room to ākāśa. This is a mass of clouds gathered together. This we take to be ākāśa. This is not ākāśa at all. What is everywhere is ākāśa. Where can it be shown? Certainly, ākāśa is here. Ākāśa is here (Swami snapping His fingers). Ākāśa is in what I speak. What is the quality of this ākāśa? Sound itself is the quality of ākāśa. So wherever there is sound, all of that is ākāśa! Breathing in and breathing out are sound too. So where is the place without ākāśa? ‘Antarbahiśca tat sarvaṃvyāpya nārāyaṇa sthitaḥ.’ He who pervades beyond all measure, more than this ākāśa pervades, is ‘gaganasadṛśaṃ’. He is God. This very thing:
Made of Śabda-Brahman, of all that moves and moves not, of light, of speech, of eternal Ānanda, of what is beyond the beyond, of Māyā, of auspicious splendour.
All this is nothing but the qualities of ākāśa! So He is the one who pervades everything in this way. Who is the one who pervades? He is God. So He is the true Guru.