Exposition from Eknathi Bhagawat - 1

With palms pressed together, the disciple bows before the Master who is of the form of Shiva. After so bowing, he says to the Guru, "You bestow upon the one who bows to you, the status of Shiva." That status which you give is your own being. You do not allow the separate entity as an individual (jiva) to remain, so how can the identification with the physical body remain? You do not disturb one's life, but you accept one's service to you. This means that the disciple is apparently just like others in the physical body. The living moving principle in the disciple is as normal as that of everyone, but you change the inner consciousness into the vastness of Shiva. You give your devotee the high state of the Self that is beyond the body, yet somehow the physical body still serves you.

The great demon of doubt is that which thinks that one is an individual although one is truly Brahman. By killing this demon of doubt you carry this dead body. When the wrong notion that one is the jiva goes out, you carry his body, and you give the status of Brahman to that body. Then, as Vishnu, the all-permeating God, holds together the body, and operates through it, you reside in the body as Janardana. Now, Eknath has runaway. There is no one who is the owner, named Eknath who is in this body. There is only the Guru, the Master, who is Janardana. The sound of the conch is evident because of the one who blows it. When this body is able to speak, it is because you make it do so. This body is moving and doing its activities because of you. All actions are possible because of you, and whatever was 'mine' has gone along with 'me.'