In plain words
Without good, bad cannot be recognised at all. So it is not possible for you to recognise my form,” he said. But the ṛṣis insisted that they must recognise it. Then Satyasvarūpa: “Then look; my very form pervades the whole world,” and he showed it to them. “Sahasraśīrṣāḥ puruṣaḥ sahasrākṣas sahasrapāt”: how can human beings recognise the principle that has so many heads, so many forms, so many kinds of consciousness? In each body this consciousness appears in its own way. But in all there is one consciousness. To know such a spiritual principle is very hard. Spirituality means knowing the form of Satya that one does not know. It means finding the unseen Ānanda in the object one sees.
Only what does not change in the three times is Satya
Today who is trying to see it? They sit down to meditate. They close their eyes, somehow or other. They build some form or other in the mind. All these too are only reflected forms. But not forms seen directly. How long will this reflection, reaction and resound last? Where does this resound come from? I am speaking. You are hearing all the sound I speak. What is the root source of this sound? My mouth, you say. No, no. It is not something soundless. Then what is reaction? The way I turn the hands and move the mouth: is that reaction? Reaction too is only the reflection of that resound. The reflection of resound comes as reaction and covers up reality. You must forget attachment to the body. You must keep attachment to the Ātma in view as the goal. This itself is the true Satya. But do you know what Satya is like today? Do people speak to each one just as suits him, and call that Satya? Not at all. One kind of talk with that man, another with this man, and one's own talk within oneself: this is not Satya at all. Whatever does not change in the three times, that itself is Satya. Only what does not change in all three, Past, Present, and Future, is Satya.