In plain words
The indweller, who is not seen, he believes to be Asatya.
The whole world, fashioned from what is seen, is bound to change!
‘The unseen itself feeds you the fruits of your karma: that is the mystery, O God.’ What is not seen is the very root cause of your joys and sorrows. ‘Do not strut, brother, thinking you have beauty, youth and the strength of the senses; ahead of you, and soon, lies the crocodiles' festival called old age.’ For now you think this is real. A few days on, is this real, or Asatya! The whole world, fashioned from what is seen, is bound to change! What does not change, that alone is real. For many children in this modern age it is a great fashion, seeing films, watching TV; they cannot live without these. They take a ticket and go into the cinema hall. The moment they go in, a big white screen appears. But they keep waiting, ‘When will the pictures come on that screen, when will they come?’ When the pictures come, he feels as though life had come back to him. The pictures have come. He is rejoicing that they have come, but those pictures are going. Other pictures play in another way. In this way the pictures come, and go. In just the same way, this scene called the world comes and goes. By what support are we able to see this coming and going? We are able to see it by the support of the screen. The screen does not come, and does not go. The screen is real, the pictures are mithyā. Yet that same Śaṅkara said, ‘Sarvaṃ khalvidaṃ brahma’: all is the very form of Brahman. Then are these pictures, which are mithyā, the form of God as well? How? When pictures that are mithyā fall on the screen that is real, the screen is there in these pictures too. Without the screen the pictures are not seen. The support of the pictures is the screen itself! And what is seen in those pictures is the screen itself. So, ‘Sarvaṃ khalvidaṃ brahma’. In this modern age the kind of character that recognises such a truth has, for the most part, sunk low. They think the body is real. They think the indweller is Asatya. But we must find the indweller with the body itself. What is the body like?