The aim of life is to become conscious of the supreme Reality. There are two lives, inner and outer. Outer reality tries to fulfil itself by feeling desires and stimulating passions. The esoteric or inner reality finds fulfilment in control of passions and conquest of desires, in swimming in the sea of liberation.

The aim of life is to realise God. Realisation can never come to the individual who is inactive. We have to strive for realisation; pay the price for it. There is no alternative. for God-realisation, you need peace which comes from love --  love for humanity and for God. Peace is also founded on non-attachment -- no thirst for gain, no fear of loss. Peace is also based on renunciation -- not of worldly possession, but of limitation and ignorance. When you have that divine peace, realisation cannot help but knock at your heart’s door. The lotus of realisation will start blooming in your heart, petal by petal.

For God-realisation, temples are not obligatory. Neither is the tapestry of scriptures and sermons. What is imperative is meditation that will make you realise God the Infinite within your soul, heart, mind and body. Time and place does not matter for meditation, so transcend them.

We are living in this world, but we do not live by bread alone. We need the soul to live in God’s reality, which alone has the capacity to see and feel the known and unknown, the existent and non-existent, dreams of the past, achievements of the present and hopes of the future. This is the dream of ever-surpassing transcendence, the Reality of ever-blossoming revelation

 However, remember - no work, no progress.