In plain words
That is the One alone. Ask, ‘Who is Rāmayya?’ and he stands up saying ‘I’. He says ‘I’. Ask, ‘Who is Kṛṣṇayya?’ and another says ‘I’. Ask, ‘Who is Dharmayya?’ and he says ‘I’. The answer that comes from everyone is I, I.. I, I. From the beggar to the millionaire, when a man introduces himself: ‘I am such-and-such a beggar, Swami!’, ‘I am such-and-such a proprietor, Swami!’, ‘I am such-and-such an officer, Swami!’, ‘I am such-and-such a farmer, Swami!’: so he uses the word ‘I’. So in the very first naming of God, they gave Him the name ‘I’, that is, nēnu. That is ‘aham’. Only after it did ‘Om’ come. Aham is the very first. Om came after. So ‘I’ is divinity itself! That is why ‘mamātma sarva bhūtāntarātma’. ‘I’ is in everyone. There is no one at all who does not say ‘I’. People say, ‘I came in the morning, sir.’ ‘I am going, sir’; ‘I am having my meal.’ ‘I am walking’: like this, in everything, first comes ‘I’, ‘I’. ‘I’ is endless, eternal. When we put ‘man’ beside the word ‘I’, we say, ‘I am a man.’ ‘I’ is endless; what comes to an end is ‘man’. What is endless is I. So ‘man’ is not endless. He is one who has an end. ‘I’ has no end at all. Endless, endless. That is why they said, ‘Satyaṃ jñānam anantaṃ brahma.’ The word Brahma has no proper meaning. Aham. That is why it is said in Vedānta, ‘Ahaṃ brahmāsmi.’ Aham and Brahma: the two are one. What does Brahma mean? Brahma is not some figure with four faces put on, shown in the cinema. It is the vast form. Vastness..... Expansion of Love is Brahma. Contraction of Love is death. Brahma means Expansion of Love. Wherever you look, vastness. So there is no place where God is not.
Our heart itself is the form of God
Once, in the Bhāgavatam, a lovely example was given. One day, at a gopikā's house, it seemed that someone knocked at the door. The gopikā: ‘Shall I open the door?’ So she thought. If she opened it, someone might come inside; so should she open it?