In plain words
Those who have themselves called sādhakas argue in many ways that they are carrying on a search for God, that they are practising sādhanas for the sake of God. Only people who do not know what the search for God means use such a word and call it ‘sādhana’. The search for God is not a proper word on the spiritual path. To search for a God who stays in some one place somewhere is natural. To carry on a search for the divinity that is everywhere is Ajñāna! Why should one search for the divinity that is in oneself, outside oneself, all around oneself, everywhere? So the person who says he is searching is a fool who has not recognised divinity! ‘With hands and feet on every side,’ says the Gītā. In the Veda too it is said, ‘Antarbahiścatatsarvam vyāpya nārāyaṇasthitaḥ.’ What is within, without and everywhere is the very abiding of Nārāyaṇa! Why, then, sādhanas? Why a search? What is the fruit of sādhanas? In what way are we doing sādhana?
The search for God is man's own natural state!
If we put the question to ourselves in this way, what we see in daily life, from the time we rise at dawn until we lie down at night, does not itself count as sādhana. What does the search for God mean? It is man's own natural state! Every action one experiences in one's daily life is itself the form of God! ‘What is God like? Where is He?’ Only when there is such a longing to know does this word ‘search’ apply. Taking all these to be spiritual, man goes on using meaningless words and wasting his time. The man who has entered the spiritual path must make divinity his very own. He must regard this as the natural state. That is all; it is not a special state.