The Jivi (living being) on account of an intellect caught in the coils of delusion imagines that it is an 'effect' and so, bound to some 'cause'. This non-awareness of Truth has to be conquered by Atmavidya which urges towards this adventure and ensures success. It will destroy the distinction, now believed in, between Jiva and Jagath (the subject and the object, man and the Cosmos). To help man in this heroic duel, and to make him aware of the Truth, the Vedas prescribe Karmas or desirable Activities in what is referred to as Karma Kanda. So long as one is caught in A-vidya, man and cosmos, the upper and lower worlds, dharma and a-dharma, Karma, Bhakthi and Jnana - these concepts have to be respected and one's life shaped accordingly. So long as one is established in the validity of the "diversity" apparent in the Universe, one acts according to the limits inspired by the personalised God, the Iswara.

The Universe is for each Jivi its own mental picture and nothing else, fundamentally. So, unless one unravels the mind and its processes, the Brahma principle is difficult to understand. Those who have not understood the real nature of the sky will mistake it as a dome of smoke and dust; so too, the Atma is mistaken, through non-awareness of reality, to be enclosed in and embodied as intellect or Buddhi, to be involved in activity, to be caught up in the twin bonds of joy and sorrow, and to be embroiled in happiness and misery and also in bondage and liberation. From the angle of change (Vyavahara), the higher Truth will naturally appear as different, though they are inextricably inter-related. Space is one. But, as a result of the diversity of vessels, it seems to be enclosed in the home, the pot, the building and the canvas. There is no truth in this sectionalised existence; it is the One space that exists in all these "containers" - houses, lakes, hills etc. - which are shapes and forms, with distinct names attached to them and different modes of behaviour and use. So too, individual beings (jivas) have different names and forms, peculiarities and specialities of use and behaviour; but, like the string that holds the beads, passing in and through each and holding them together, the Super-Consciousness in all individuals is One.