All the manifested world of things and beings are projected by imagination upon the substratum which is the Eternal All-pervading Vishnu, whose nature is Existence-Intelligence; just as the different ornaments are all made out of the same gold.
"Atma Bodh" translated by Swami Chinmayananda, Chinmaya Mission, (p. 16), 1987.
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