He who has purified his body and mind through perfect ethical culture alone can realize the "actionless Self" -- the True being -- as the only Reality.

Otherwise any self-deluded man can pretend to be "actionless" and thereby simply muddle his impure, chaotic brain. Merely claiming to have attained same-sightedness will not do. A man must be put to the test and must be able to pass the test also.

"With the heart concentrated by Yoga, with the eye of evenness for all things, he beholds the Self in all beings and all beings in the Self."

When anybody claims to be a man of knowledge and at the same time passionately seeks different forms of sense enjoyments and different worldly distractions and rejoices or grieves through attachment, there is something seriously wrong with his so-called knowledge. The perfected soul does not care to run after the will-o'-the-wisp of transient human relationships and momentary enjoyment. His undimmed vision of the Truth prevents him from even turning to what is false and illusory.

Therefore, the aspirant should prevent his mind from running after human attachments and vanities of the world, even though it may take many years of intense struggle.

Christ says:

"Everyone that hath forsaken houses or brethren, or sisters, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life."

We should never lightly and thoughtlessly pass over the teachings of the great divine personalities. Rather, we should ponder over them deeply, and then put their instructions into practice.

Everything becomes simple the moment we ourselves become simple, and everything becomes difficult as long as we remain or become complex. Realization is very easily attained by one who is properly trained and qualified. The aspirant comes face to face with the truth, as it is. It is directly perceived. The spiritual ideal should be made real and living, so it ceases to be merely an ideal.

Let us not worry too much about anything other than God. We should live with the divine alone. This is not the ultimate stage to be reached, but it is a very necessary stepping stone to its attainment. Ultimately we must realize the same Divine Being in all, love all because of Him and through Him only.

First we must learn to see the Cosmic Being at the back of the personal, and then we come to see the Absolute at the back of the Cosmic. The Holy Personality, the Incarnation or the Personal God takes us, as it were, by the hand and reveals higher knowledge to us step by step. The realization of the Absolute -- the Transcendental -- lies always through the realization of the Immanent Divine Principle. No one can take a long jump and reach the Absolute without the necessary preparation, however great may be its appeal to the intellect. The more we succeed in creating within ourselves a Cosmic outlook, the more we feel there is neither man nor woman, neither subject or object, but that all is the One manifesting itself through different names and forms.

We must learn to see Him alone even in all awful, terrible things, too, without ever allowing the awful and the terrible to overpower our mind. He is even in the gross, the impure, and awful, but these vulgar things must never be permitted to affect our mind or to take possession of it.

To the extent in which we succeed in seeing the One alone, we forget all limitations and pairs of opposites, we forget the whole play of the phenomenal world. And we can do this if we see that everything else but God is insignificant and fleeting, of secondary importance, a mere shadowy, insubstantial, passing show. God is the only Reality behind everything.