In plain words
A small example. There is life in our body. One life-force, one blood, is supplied everywhere in the body. There is only the one blood. One heart! One life! If you hold a laḍḍu in your hand, do you know its taste? No. When you put it on your tongue, you recognise its sweetness. The blood is one and the same in the hand and in the tongue! But its sweetness is known only on the tongue. Why should it not be known in the hand?
Do you know why hands were given you? Was it to carry morsels to the mouth? Do you know why feet were given you? Was it to roam the lanes and alleys? Do you know why ears were given you? Was it to listen to the gossip of the village?
No, no. In the same way, all these were made so that each sense recognises its own object, and all those objects are gathered up and turned into oneness. We must experience the oneness of all these. Only then does it become Divinity.
Though forms and names differ, Divinity is one!
Many students will have had the experience in the hostel. They bring green chillies. They bring salt. They bring tamarind. They bring coconut. If you just mix them all together like that, what taste will there be? There will be no taste at all. Instead, when you put these four in and grind them well, they take on a new form called chutney. Only then does a new taste come. In tāmbūla the leaf is green. The areca nut is brown. The lime is white. When we put these three together and chew them, a red colour comes. In the same way, when certain qualities in humanness come together, it goes on taking shape as one Avatāra or another. When the three, good qualities, good thoughts and good reflection, come together, it takes shape as the Lord of all, as Īśvara. When there are good karma, good reflection and good thought, the form of Viṣṇu comes forth.