In order to grasp this and to develop his original view of it, the Advaida Vedanta of Sankara especially as interpreted by the late Richard De Smet has been very helpful to him.
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He interprets it with reason as symbol; the world is a symbol of God - this is the thought of the only real poet theologian in the Christian tradition, St. Ephrem, a fourth-century saint who lived and worked in Nisbis and then in Edessa.
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