In plain words
Why do you let go of God, who is so easily reached? God has no particular form. The principle of consciousness itself is the principle of God. This consciousness goes on shining in every person. Is the air you breathe visible to your eye? No; can your hand catch hold of it? No. That alone is no reason to say there is no air! In the same way, divinity is in you yourselves, unseen by the eye. Is it not madness to search here and there for the divinity that is in you yourselves? First of all, make your faith grow. Regard faith as your very breath. Your love for your mother comes only from the faith ‘This is my mother’. Without faith you would not love even your mother.
“Where there is faith, there is Prema. Where there is Prema, there is Satya. Where there is Satya, there is Śānti. Where there is Śānti, there is Ānanda. Where there is Ānanda, there is God.”
Man cannot experience Ānanda precisely because he has lost his self-confidence. First of all, he must build up his self-confidence. He must believe in himself. How can one who does not believe in himself ever believe in God?
Seen with the eye of Jñāna, divinity is visible everywhere
There is no place where God is not. You are seeing God all the time. Where? All the heads seen here are the heads of God! “Sahasraśīrṣā puruṣaḥ sahasrākṣaḥ sahasrapāt.” How mistaken it is to look at thousands of heads and think you have not seen God! All these outer forms are reflections of your own inward svarūpa. All that is outside is only the ‘reflection’ of what is within. But you fix your gaze only on the ‘reflection’ and forget the ‘reality’. Wherever you look, there is nothing but divinity. (Swami, showing his handkerchief) What is this? If I ask, you will say, ‘A cloth’. It is not merely a cloth; it too is a form of God. Without threads there is no cloth at all. Then where did the threads come from? They came from cotton. Where did the cotton come from?