In plain words
Once Annie Besant, too, said this. What? A sādhaka is searching for God. He thinks he is searching for God. No, no. The sādhaka is not searching for God. Because wherever you look, it is God alone. Everything is filled with God. So where is there to search? But God is searching for the right one, the right devotee. So who is that good devotee? He alone who has good feelings, he alone who is rich in good conduct. He alone in whom good thought has grown: just such a one, who has these qualities, God is searching for. A devotee, a devotee: one who merely sings bhajans is not, by that alone, a devotee. A tape recorder also sings bhajans. A gramophone record also sings bhajans. But both of these alike are simply lifeless; they are not full of consciousness. But when man, who is full of consciousness, sings bhajans, he must sing them with all his heart. Every single word must spring from the heart. In that very heart there is a song full of Prema. That itself comes forth from Prema.
All is Brahman
Embodiments of the divine Ātma! This very Prema is named the Ātma. This very Prema is named Brahman. Everything is turning into Brahman. Many are searching for Brahman. Where is Brahman? He is right within oneself. If one searches outside for the Brahman who is within oneself, in what corner will He be found?
Born in the water, floating on that same water, the bubble sinks back into the water; man is the bubble, Nārāyaṇa the water: this word tells what is.
That is why, first of all, we — as I told the children yesterday — must drive out of us completely the feeling ‘I must become great, I must become great’. Believe that you must become good. Only when you become good does the fruit of goodness come to us.