In plain words
This whole world is pictured in the very heart of man. That is why it was said, ‘Daivaṃ mānuṣa rūpeṇa.’ God has taken human form. You forget the divinity that is in humanness, and scramble after a divinity beyond the human. That is why you are unable to recognise the truth.
The oneness in the many is the principle of the Ātma
Divinity is beyond the guṇas; it has no form; it is beyond the influence of place, time and circumstance. To such divinity you give a form of your own making and worship it. All that is seen everywhere is the form of God! All the Upaniṣads establish the oneness in the many. But man, through worldly feelings, divides the one into the many. He does not try to recognise the oneness in the many. The principle at the root of everything is one. That is the oneness. That is the principle of the Ātma. Oneness is the support; manyness is what is supported. Here we see many bulbs. In every bulb light is seen. However many the bulbs, the current is one, is it not! In the same way, oneness shines in the many. We have built a house and put up many bulbs for light. If we turn the main switch ‘on’, all the bulbs light up; if we turn it ‘off’, all go out. All bodies are like different bulbs. The Ātma is the ‘current’ that flows through them. The principle of the Ātma flows through all beings. Ātma means the power of consciousness itself! That is the power of Brahmānanda. That is the power of Nityānanda. That is the power of Yogānanda. That is the power of Advaitānanda. Not trying to recognise that principle of non-duality, man fosters manyness and lives in the darkness of ignorance. Coming under the prabhāva of the world, he forgets his own svabhāva.
Satya itself is the form of God
Svabhāva means the nature of the Ātma. That is what we must keep following. It does not grow; it does not shrink.