In plain words
This friendship itself is the step before the offering of the self. We must have friendship with God. We must try to stay near. At once dearness arises. That very dearness is the breeze. When that breeze called divine Prema falls on the coal nearby, it too becomes like fire. So we practise many kinds of sādhana for that Prema alone. There is no need even for sādhana. It is enough if you keep that bond in memory. The bond you have with God is the bond of the Ātma, and that alone. That itself is Brahmā, that itself is Viṣṇu, that itself is Īśvara.
There is no separate God for this creation, for its protection, for its dissolution. That is why I say now and then: In English they say GOD. What is the spelling? They say GOD. What does G mean? Generator. The one who brings into being; O: organisor, the principle of protection. This generation must have organisation. D: destroyer; creation, preservation and dissolution are in the one God alone. That itself is God. The three together are in one God alone. It is not one for creation, one for protection and yet another for dissolution. God Himself is the cause of creation, preservation and dissolution. We must believe in this kind of principle as oneness. This itself is true Advaita. Where did this Advaita come from? People think that Śaṅkarācārya said it, Rāmānujācārya said it, Madhvācārya said it. But divinity, one in all of them, went on teaching it. All of them are ācāryas. Ācārya means those who practise, experience and then hand on. Once, Śaṅkarācārya, such an ācārya, went to Kāśī. ‘Swami! Forgive my sins,’ he prayed to Īśvara. Ādi Śaṅkara. The son of Āryāmbā. He went there and, ‘Swami! Forgive my sins,’ he begged. ‘What are those sins?’ he asked himself. “From which words turn back, together with the mind, without reaching It”: thus. ‘There are no words to describe You. There is no language to describe You. The mind has no claim at all,’ I myself said. Entering Kāśī,
Lord, Lord of the mountain, Lord of men, supreme Lord .... Sāmba Sadāśiva, Śambho, Śaṅkara, the pair of Your feet is my refuge,