You are the image of the Supreme Self, the image that is reflected in the body, that is part of Nature. Your body is kith and kin of all the objects that surround you in nature; your body is an object among so many. The original Divine Spirit, the individualised spirit, which is the image, and the objective world of which the body is a part – these are three entities called God, Individual and Nature. Success in spiritual discipline is won the moment you are able to either deny the objective world as a delusion or recognise it as nothing but the Supreme Spirit itself. (GICS, p. 202)

Be ever in the consciousness that you are but the shadow of God; His image. Then no harm can hamper you. God walks along the royal road of Truth, the shadow, holding on to Him by the feet, falls on hallow and hill, fire and water, dirt and dust. So, if you hold on to the feet, you can be as unaffected as the shadow by the ups and downs. of life. (GICS, p. 205)