In plain words
Truly, there is no need to go searching for God. The very phrase ‘the search for God’ is a great mistake. Longing for the vision of God, some practise many kinds of sādhana: yama, niyama, āsana, prāṇāyāma, pratyāhāra, dhāraṇā, dhyāna, samādhi and the rest. What, after all, is ‘samādhi’? ‘Sama-dhī’ means the Buddhi that stays even towards all things. This sacred principle is in everyone. To think that only those who have done sādhana will gain it is a big mistake. To recognize the Divinity within you, you need do no sādhana at all.
The ‘I’ itself is Divinity
Embodiments of Prema! Would you search anywhere outside for your own true nature? One who searches like that can only be called a fool. Can you see your ‘self’ anywhere outside? If you want to see yourselves, you must search within yourselves. Whatever you wish to search for is within you yourselves. By searching outside for such a sacred principle, you push it far away from yourselves. You search for yourselves in all sorts of places. How will reality ever dawn on people with minds as crazed as this? Prema is in you. Did you buy that Prema from somewhere and bring it? You use the word ‘I’. Where does that ‘I’ come from? It does not come from anywhere. It does not go anywhere. ‘The eternal one, who neither comes nor goes’: that is in you yourselves. The ‘I’ itself is Divinity. But you take the body itself to be ‘I’ and practise sādhanas. Instead of wasting your time in sādhanas of this kind, recognize the Satya ‘I am I’. To do sādhana truly, you must give up attachment to the body. For one who has recognized the Satya ‘I am I’, no sādhana of any kind is needed any more. It is most urgent that every man recognize for himself the Satya that is in him. He alone is a true sādhaka who recognizes the Satya that the Divinity he searches for is within himself, and lives by it.