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==                                                 Thath thwam Asi == There is a small example for this. From a big hill, we pick out one rock and an artisan chisels out of this uncut rock a beautiful figure of Lord Vishnu. After some effort, he will produce out of this rock a very beautiful figure of Lord Vishnu. Choosing a proper and auspicious time, he will take this figure of Lord Vishnu and install it on a pedestal in the Devalaya and will go on worshipping it. Here we notice that a part of the rock has been taken out and has been installed in the temple and is being worshiped by various people. The little remnants, the pieces of stone, which are left in the rock after chiseling the figure of Lord Vishnu, are left in the same place as the rock. No one cares for those remnant pieces of rock. Nobody worships them and nobody thinks of those pieces as of any importance. Here, in our thought, this portion of the Lord Vishnu figure becomes one which can be worshiped as God, whereas the rest of the rock from which it has come is looked upon as useless pieces. But these pieces of stones and their background are not like that. The remnant pieces of rock will keep on proclaiming, “Thath thwam Asi” and seem to say, “That figure of Vishnu which you are worshipping is me, I am that.” A portion of the rock appears to us as if we can worship it, and another portion of the rock appears to us as valueless. What is being worshiped, as the deity is something, which has been created by you? The true form from which it has been created is the original piece of rock. As in that analogy, what we see in this world as a form is something, which has come out of the source rock. The form of Lord Vishnu, in this case, has been formed from a rock. But the essence, the basic substance in the formless, is the same in the source rock as in the figure. Whether you take the formless rock, the source of the idol of Lord Vishnu, or the idol itself and beat it, the kind of sound that will come out is exactly the same in both cases. Sunrise or Sunset thus perceived is to overcome the spiritual ignorance...Read the King Yayati to learn more....Sivkishen, Author