In plain words
Through this humility and obedience, through his word, man rises to any height. But the whole world is only one. To look at, it may appear as many. In this world that appears in so many forms, what is called one exists in changed forms. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven eight, nine, ten: of these numbers, the most important of all is one. All the rest are only changed forms of this one. Take the number two: only when two ones joined did it become two. Add one to nine and it has become ten. Take one away from nine and it becomes eight. So what increases and what cuts down is that one alone. This is: “Ekaṃ sat viprā bahudhā vadanti.” This itself is Oneness. This very thing they called ‘Om’ ityekākṣaraṃ Brahma. This ‘Om’ is what bears Oneness in sound. Divinity begins from Oneness itself. These divinities are not separate forms. They are only shapes that have emerged from the Oṃkāra. All sounds are only changed forms of the Oṃkāra, but in the world, unable to recognise this truth, people believe in manyness and travel by many paths. They take up desires of many kinds. The word ‘one’ is like a seed. But at a certain time this same seed comes to have a husk. But because some change came about through time, karma, cause and duty, the husk fell away from this seed. That husk itself is this world. That seed itself is Divinity. Between this Divinity and Nature there is no difference at all. Just as man, though he has many limbs, is one in form, and just as man, one in form, is made up of all his limbs, so humanness, made up of these limbs, has come to be a limb of society. I told you yesterday. This society becomes a limb of humanness. This very limb called humanness has become a limb of Nature. This Nature is a limb of the Paramātma. In this way man's limbs, man's form, the principle of society that is humanness, and the principle of Nature: all of these, every one, are only forms of the limbs that are in God.