Bhagwad Gita - Post 110

Verse 15

Jnaanayajnena chaapyanye

Yajanto maamupaasate;

Ekatwena prithaktwena

Bahudhaa vishwatomukham.

Others also, sacrificing with the wisdom-sacrifice, worship Me, the all-faced,

as one, as distinct, and as manifold.

In this wisdom of the spirit which is jnana yajna, they behold Me in all varieties of forms - “Ekatvena pṛthaktvena bahudhā viśvatomukham”.

As I am everywhere, they can behold Me as one Being existing everywhere; or they can behold Me as two realities indwelling as a transcendent element and also as an immanent element; or they may look upon Me as a multifaceted Reality indwelling many souls.

It is said that Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa once came to Benares to have darshan of the great saint and sage Trailanga Swami, a great siddha. 

The greatness of that siddha was such that it drew even Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. 

It appears that Sri Ramakrishna put a question to Trailanga Swami: “Maharaj, how many gods are there?” 

Swamiji raises three fingers, then two fingers, then one finger. That was the answer. Rama Krishna nodded his head and conveyed, “Yes I understand you.” 

The great disciple understood the great Master’s significant gesture: God is three-fold, God is two-fold, God is single.  

Three-fold: God can be visualized as a manifold manifestation, as the souls of all created beings; 

Two-fold: He can be considered as a dual manifestation, transcendent and immanent;

One / Single: He can be beheld as one only.

According to Sankaracharya, there is one reality; according to Ramanuja, there are two realities; according to Madhva, there are many realities. 

Sri Chinmaya writes,

“A man of realization moves about the world, seeing his own

Self, expressed through every movement and action, word and thought that clusters round him at all times. 

Just as one light in the midst of a thousand mirrors comes to provide crores of reflections everywhere, so too, the one centered in the Self, when he walks out into the world, sees everywhere his own Self dancing, shooting glances at him from all around at once, thrilling him always with the homogeneous ecstasy of perfection and bliss.”

Sai devotees should align the above secret with the one expression taken in an Alaap for a song Ram Hare, Hari Naam Bolo where, we sing, “Ik Noor te, sab jag upjyaara”. 

There is only one light, one pure consciousness, which is described as Jnanam Brahman, as it is the source Knowledge which illumines all other knowledge in this creation!!! It is one light, which illumines this entire creation!!!

Love.