In plain words
So it says. In the Veda this same thing is ‘Sahasraśīrṣāpuruṣaḥ sahasrākṣa sahasrapāt’. He is not merely one who has thousands of heads. All these thousands of heads are God's own heads. That is why every human being is God's very form. That is why it has been said, ‘Īśvaraḥ sarva bhūtānāṃ’. ‘Īśāvāsyam idaṃ sarvaṃ’. So we must believe every human being to be God's very form. Taking the body alone as your basis, you are deluded, thinking, ‘I am a man, a man’. But this body may be a human body, yet you are God's very form. You are a human being who has three forms. You are not one person, but three. The one you think you are is the physical body. The one others think you are, mental body. The one you really are. That is Atma. Your humanness is precisely what is made up of these three forms. So how must we pray?
Tridalaṃ triguṇākāraṃ trinetraṃ ca triyāyudham trijanma pāpa saṃhāraṃ ekabilvaṃ śivārpaṇam.
Triguṇaṃ tridalākāraṃ. Man, who has the guṇas in sāttvic form; tridalākāraṃ: that is this body, mind and Ātma. We must offer to Śiva this humanness, which is the form of the Trimūrti. What does that mean? Every karma for the pleasure of God.
So, first, if these sacred feelings are to arise in us, samyak dṛṣṭi is essential; if the vision is not right, all our actions will not turn out right. Only when the tank is full of good water do we get good water from the tap. If you fill the tank with foul water, nothing but foul water comes from the tap. So the tank is your heart. Our samyak dṛṣṭi, samyak śravaṇam, samyak vāk and samyak karma: all these are taps. These five elements too are five taps. So if you fill the heart with sacred feelings, then naturally samyak dṛṣṭi, samyak śravaṇam, samyak bhāvam, samyak karma and samyak kīrtana, all five, become sacred.