In plain words
You must understand the truth that divinity pervades the whole of nature. Kṛṣṇa said in the Bhagavad Gītā, “Mamaivāṃśo jīvaloke jīvabhūtas sanātanaḥ.” “What is in everyone is a part of Me alone. You and I are not different”: if you understand this truth well, you will not hope again to see God as someone apart.
If you recognise your ‘sva’-bhāva, there is no room for fear
You are seeing the cosmic form all the time. All the forms you see are forms of God. Form is the mark of pravṛtti. This is the root of Māyā. What is Māyā? Māyā has no form of its own. Māyā is what makes you forget what is. In the dark you saw a rope, mistook it for a snake and took fright. At once you took a torch from the person beside you, shone it and looked, and it became clear that it was not a snake but a rope. With that the fear too was gone. Before that, no snake had come and no rope had gone. After the torch was shone, no snake went and no rope came. What was there, then and now, was only the rope. To see one thing and mistake it for another: that is Māyā. If you recognise the truth, Māyā will not stand in your way. Coming under the prabhāva of the objects of the world, you are forgetting your svabhāva. If you know your ‘sva’ (Ātma) bhāva, there will be no room for any fear or any delusion. When there is no other apart from you, when you yourselves are the form of all, why should you fear any more?
Honour comes only when conduct befits the costume
A strolling player put on the costume of Śaṅkarācārya, entered a great king's court and gave fine spiritual teachings.
No mother is there, no father, no kinsman, no brother; no wealth is there, no home; therefore, awake, awake! Birth is sorrow, old age is sorrow, a wife is sorrow, again and again; at the time of the end, great sorrow; therefore, awake, awake!
When he had recited the ślokas in this way, the great king was very pleased, had a plate filled with gold coins brought, and was about to present them to him.