Best Way to Self-Realize

My Dears,

You will find truth deep within yourself. Think about it many times; ponder over it, it tells you about your true nature. It gives you hope, it gives you new life, it points out the way, it proves to you that God is within you, and that man is God. It shows you that it is possible for you to realize God (your Swamiji). But you and you alone must ponder over this deeply. You will find that you will begin to know what is meant by the statement: “The Self cannot be explained. The mind knows of its existence.” The Self-God is within man. You are that Self. All else is an illusion of the mind’s creation; the mind that creates, preserves, and destroys.

My Love! The great joy! The subtlety of the bliss! That you will feel as you come closer and closer to your real Self. You strive in vain because, the mind cannot give you truth; a lie cannot give you the truth. A lie can only entangle you in a web of deceit. You must sensitize your Self and awaken your true, fine, and beautiful qualities.

Above you—nothing; below you—nothing; to the right of you or to the left of you—nothing. Dissolve yourself into the nothingness; that would be the best way you could explain the realization of the Self. And yet, that nothingness would not be the absence of something like the nothingness…that nothingness is the fullness of everything, the power of the existence of that, appears to be everything.

~Baba
Source: The Divine Within, Pg. 148