Our lives are so short, our bodies so ephemeral, and this world so full of hazard and suffering that it is absolutely necessary to find God. The only way is to realize God, to have the vision of the Self.

GOD IS ALL PERVASIVE, PERFECT, and eternal. He is in all things, both within and without. He is immanent in all beings and lives in the temple of the heart in the form of the inner Self. Yet there are few who know Him. Many deluded people do not believe He exists — in the heart or anywhere else on this earth — for nowadays faith in God is regarded as false.

[…] Our lives are so short, our bodies so ephemeral, and this world so full of hazard and suffering that it is absolutely necessary to find God. But the way to Him is very hard. Just as man has a bloodline, so the divine principle has a lineage. This world descends from God, who is without beginning. One seed produces another identical seed. The ones yet to come will have the same nature as the first.

In this way, Brahman is gradually born from Brahman. The Self is an integral portion of Parabrahman, God. From the perfect comes the perfect, arising in the form of perfection, remaining perfect in its perfect nature.

When this is the true law, why do we human beings experience imperfection, why do we feel broken and scattered, why do we keep crying out and weeping?

The reason is our forgetfulness of our own real nature. Although illusory, this Self-forgetfulness is very powerful. It has been called ignorance, nescience, maya, or impurity; it is this ignorance that reduces the Supreme Lord to a human being, the Universal Soul to an individual soul, the free to the bound. Creating the notion of “I and mine”, it takes you into the painful world of dualities and gives rise to many sufferings. The only way to escape it is to realize God, to have the vision of the Self.

(Extract from Play of Consciousness, Part 1)