What is the essential message of the scriptures? Bhagawan explains clearly through a simple example. The Vedas, the Shastras (scriptures) and the Puranas (mythological texts) propound many ideals of life. However, their core principle is unity or oneness in the apparent diversity. Ekam Sat Viprah Bahudha Vadanti (Truth is one, but the wise refer to it by various names). This unified principle, that is the Atma, is present all over our body from top to toe. Here is a small example. Suppose you cover a lighted candle with a pot having ten holes. Because of these ten holes, the same single flame appears as ten different flames. Now cover the pot with a thick cloth, and you will not see any flame. You may think that there is no flame, but this is a mistake. You are not recognising the light of the Atma that is ever present in your own body. The Param Jyoti (the Supreme Divine Flame) is forgotten as a result of which man is confronted by troubles and tribulations. It is invisible to you despite its blazing presence because you have covered it with the thick cloth of Tamo Guna (quality of inertia). When the cloth is removed, you will find ten flames. And when the pot of Rajo Guna (quality of passion) is broken, what remains is the same single flame, which is omnipresent.