shvara is not only the intelligent creator of the universe, but is also the very material out of which the universe is fashioned. The material for a spider’s web comes from its body, but the spider remains separate from the web, unlike Ishvara who is non-separate from the universe like a dreamer is non-separate from his or her dream
Swami Tadatmananda is a traditionally-trained teacher of Advaita Vedanta, meditation, and Sanskrit.