As Satchidānanda, pure consciousness, God Śiva permeates all of existence as its very ground and energy. Some liken this ubiquitous substratum of Divinity to a cinema screen, which is real but unnoticed as the images of relative reality dance upon its surface. Here the natural world, with its groves, mountains and intergalactic spaces, is depicted as the body of Śiva. He is in all, and all is in Him.§