In plain words
We must search for the Satya ‘Who am I?’ This is my body, my body; I am not the body. Who am I? We must try to come to know this Satya step by step, by enquiry. It is not something to be got in the Upaniṣads. The Upaniṣads have been teaching it. That is all; to reach it, we must make the journey. There is a guide-post. It tells you, ‘Go this way and you reach such-and-such road; go this way and you reach such-and-such village.’ But the ones who must walk that path are ourselves: the guide-post gives guidance, but it does not take us to our goal.
Only when we dedicate our heart to God does divinity become visible to us
In the same way the Bhagavad Gītā, the Bhārata, the Bhāgavata and the Upaniṣads teach us the path, but it is we who must walk it! When potato and chapātī are put on your plate, will your belly be filled however many times you repeat ‘potato, chapātī’? For the food on the plate to reach the belly, the mouth and the hand must be put to work. You must pick it up with the hand. You must put it in the mouth. God's work must be done with the hands. God's Name must be spoken with the mouth. And it is not enough merely to say it with the lips. We sing so many bhajans. We listen to so many discourses. We listen to so many sacred things. But the ears that listen are like loudspeakers. The songs we sing sound out like a mike. The cymbals sound like so much noise. The current that is the mind must become one with all of them. That is why it was said, ‘Manas alone is the cause of man's bondage and liberation.’ If the mind does not enter these limbs, they all simply move like a clock that has been wound. To speak the Name of God, we must bring the mind to it as one. A small example. We record so many discourses, so many songs, so many poems on tape.