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are one. Thus, God and the world are totally identical and the world is only a sport of God. God plays with the world which in turn is Himself; God thus plays with Himself. He plays with Himself by assuming various forms of the things by means of adjuncts (upādhi), just as the same space appears of different dimensions when enclosed in a jar and a house.? God is thus different from the adjuncts and beyond the adjuncts; He is immutable and He has no samsāra, the empirical life, and so, He is free from the botheration of the world. He is so infinite and expansive in size that the Brahmāndas fill only the small pores of his body.' God is everything in the world. Tukārāma falls into confusion and does not understand with what thing he should worship God. Whatever thing he approaches is nothing but God Himself. He asks how he can bathe God with water when water presents to him as nothing else but as God Himself, the fragrance of sandal and flowers is God Himself, the metal, food, and sound are God Himself, God is the grains of rice, even the flame of the lamp that he seeks to use in the worship of God; he does not understand what to offer to Him since there is nothing else but God Himself everywhere."
1 Paņashikar (Editor): Tukārā machi Gathā, 3494, p. 713 (Nirnaya Sagar Press).
2 Ibid. 3491, p. 712. 3 Ibid. 3484, p. 711. * Ibid. 3480, p. 710, 5 Ibid. 3501, p. 714.
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