The shortest way: To be God-Mad
"Yes, Ram," Papa told me in reply to my very first question as to how to win through to God with the last possible delay. "That is the shortest way- to be God-Mad." He smiled and added: "You see people daily obsessed with this and that idea, but how rarely, alas, with God's! Cultivate this obsession; then you shall see He's everywhere - inescapably - since nothing that is has any status distinct from Him. And you shall visualize Him as you are visualizing Ramdas sitting before you." His face became a picture of ecstasy; "When Ramdas first experienced this incredible Truth with every fiber of his being he didn't know what to do with it - where to treasure it - how to cherish it! For it simply ran over - this rapture and wonderment! But how, indeed, is he to convey to you even a fraction of the marvel of that marvelous reality?"
Inner Vision
Once Ramdas saw a blind sadhu in a temple in an out-of-the-way place - in deep forest. It so happened that a qualified surgeon friend was with Ramdas at that time, who told the blind man that the lost sight could be restored by a simple operation. The sadhu smiled and said that God had given him an inner vision which had made the outer redundant.
Time-hallowed idols or the holy haunts will purify
The pilgrims' beings by degrees, but sages instantly.
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