Passage 6

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In plain words

All your desires you yourself create. Your journey you yourself create. These joys and sorrows you yourself experience, on your own. On that journey, where did that road come to you from? Where did you bring that car from? All these you yourself created, on your own. In the dream state he himself became the creator of everything. In the waking state he creates things as distinct divisions, as persons, as objects. In suṣupti he experiences Ānanda. But the one who experienced in waking is he himself; the one who experienced in the dream is he himself; the one who experiences Ānanda in suṣupti is he himself. He did not take on three forms in these three times. In the three times one person alone receives these experiences. That is precisely why man is the one who is never negated in any of the three times. Man alone is the one who, without changing in the three times, experiences Ānanda as an inner experience, directly or indirectly. So man is nothing less than the embodiment of the Trimūrti. He himself is the true form of God. Man alone is the one who has seen oneness in these three times. Man alone is the one who moves through the three worlds. So coming into being, experiencing and delighting are nothing but man's own svarūpa. When you try to bring yourself to recognise such oneness, there is no room in humanness for any kind of disturbance or turmoil to arise.

The Three Kinds of Sin

The three guṇas, the three-leafed form, the three eyes, the three weapons; destroyer of the sins of three births: one bilva leaf, offered to Śiva.

So said Śaṅkara. He went on describing the principle of Īśvara beautifully. As long as there is attachment to the body, different attachments keep arising. Śaṅkara reached the holy place of Kāśī. Going there, he had darśan of Viśvanātha. There Ādi Śaṅkara is praying. Lord! For what have I come here? I have committed three kinds of sin. I have come to have darśan of You, to atone for these three sins. What sin had he committed?