In plain words
Embodiments of Prema! ‘Tvameva mātā ca pitā tvameva … ’ As it is said, believe that your mother, father, kinsman and friend are all God Himself. Do not harbour ‘doubts’ about God. ‘Doubts’ alone throw your mind into confusion. Many people keep asking Me, ‘How is dhyāna to be done?’
What I say is one thing only: keep your faith fixed on one. Cultivate a mind that does not waver and a vision that is not deluded. Decide on some one form and keep it fixed in your heart. That is the very dhyāna you should do. When you do sādhana of this kind, Divinity will surely appear to you. There is no other sādhana that surpasses Prema. If you want to behold the Paramātma, who is the embodiment of Prema, you must direct your Prema into the path of God alone. Many people keep doing dhyāna in the hope of beholding God. Dhyāna is not mere concentration of the mind; you must cultivate a steady feeling.
The mind itself is the root of everything. Through the mind alone, everything appears to us. The very change that comes about in your feeling is reflected outside. All changes take place within you yourselves. Every single moment, your mind goes on changing. Actually, there is no way at all for the mind to change. It has no such power. You yourselves send it along many paths; of its own accord it is unable to go anywhere at all. So make the effort to keep your mind steady. Fix Divinity firmly in your mind. Then wherever you look, the form of God will appear to you; it will be seen in great radiance. But Divinity is not visible to you precisely because you give room in your mind to doubts: ‘Is it there, or not?’ First of all, keep your feeling steady. Do not become slaves to the mind. You must make the mind your slave.
What has humanness come for? Not for wasting time on food and drink. The five organs of action, the five organs of perception, the five sheaths, the five elements … We must recognise the oneness of all these. If we strive with purity of thought, word and deed, the experience of oneness comes to us easily.