In plain words
sun, reflected in countless bodies of water, appears as many suns — but even though crores upon crores of sun-images reflect in crores upon crores of water-drops, every one of them is a complete, whole image of the sun. It is as if there were truly but one single orb. Just so, every jīvātma is a reflected form shining in some particular mind. These many diverse minds, like so many different drops of water, keep reflecting that one and the same reality. It is that one, single God alone who is reflected in these diverse forms of jīva — this is exactly what Advaita, Bharat's own supreme truth, states with perfect clarity. This truth admits of no change; none ever touches it. Souls unable to grasp it may rightly be called those who have surrendered to Māyā. Even a dream must rest upon some real substratum. Without a supporting reality, that which is supported cannot stand at all. Everything that comes into being arises from that one root-substance alone. That root-foundation is Īśvara. He alone is God; he alone is the Complete One. That very same One takes shape as mind, as the jīva, as the body, and as the Ātma. You are but a figure in a dream. Seen with the eye of truth, this whole world is nothing but the very form of Saccidānanda. Dream-visions do not arise from some place outside us and dissolve somewhere else; all of them arise in the mind itself and dissolve back into the mind itself alone. Do we ever stop to wonder how they arise at all! Caught up in that dream-state, believing it to be real, we go through weeping, delight, fear, sorrow, and joy. Afterward, once we know it was only a dream, none of it troubles us any longer. In exactly the same way, this universe is like a dream. Everything arises from Īśvara alone and dissolves again into Īśvara alone. These births and rebirths, these comings and goings — all of them are mere fabrications of Māyā: delusions, untruths. You are the Complete One. You alone are Īśvara; Īśvara alone is you. To those who attain this experiential Jñāna, the realization of oneness comes about in this very world.