In plain words
In the state of sleep you forgot your body. But there, ‘you’ exist. In the dream state too, you exist. In all three of these settings, your existence has not changed in the least. You must try to recognise that truth. Only when you strive to bring that sacred truth to recognition will all these kinds of sādhana bear fruit.
We must inquire into this: to what level are we coming through the sādhanas we do, and what kind of evolution has taken place in us? Step by step, we must bring our life into this ascent and descent. We must go from this mental level to the complete upper level. To reach such a sacred, divine level, we must make great effort.
There is no easier path in the world than the spiritual path
Embodiments of Prema! You may think this is very hard. If you truly give it your śraddhā, this is a very easy path. No path easier than the spiritual path is to be found in this world. It is for lack of śraddhā that all this seems to us hard and a burden. If you hold firm, there is nothing in this world that cannot be achieved. This is exactly what has been said: ‘One who has śraddhā attains Jñāna.’ So you must keep remembering, ‘I am forever the embodiment of consciousness; Saccidānanda is my divine form.’ Today man has forgotten his own svarūpa and keeps in view only the feelings of the body, the senses, Manas and Buddhi. Saccidānanda stands as the foundation of all our feelings. Ānanda is our very form! That is why man forever longs for Ānanda alone. The whole world is the very form of Parabrahman. From the substance of Parabrahman, within the substance of Parabrahman itself, the Ātma was born. But this Parabrahman appears to us as matter. From this very matter, what lies beyond matter also begins. This is what is called the state of evolution. There is a hen's egg. When we look at it, it appears to us as one piece of matter. But when, little by little, its development and its conditions are seen to as they need to be, a life emerges from within it too.