& BAPA said... "The Enlightened Ones can chart the route, but it is you who have to tread the path.
An Enlightened Being may talk of food, but that will not fill your stomach.
Discussing water does not quench thirst.
It can only inspire you to look for water, reinforce your search for it.
Discussing hunger will augment it so much that you will set everything aside and look for food.
This is the only purpose of satsang.
By listening to the Sadguru's satsang and studying the scriptures, a deep yearning for God is created; a craving so profound that all other desires and passions are lost in it.
Only one desire, one goal, a single wish, remains and all energy gets channelised towards it..."
& BAPA said... "So long as you are asleep, so long as you are unaware even while you are awake during the day, it will not be possible for you to sleep with awareness.
Therefore, be alert, and consciously cultivate awareness.
As your love for awareness matures and your practice becomes intense, your awareness will bloom, and when awareness blooms, you shall attain a state of enlightenment..."
& BAPA said... "Sanyas has no correlation with age; it is only concerned with your inner readiness.
The moment one awakens and is ready to turn his back towards the world, to go within, that is the right time for sanyas; it may be childhood, youth or old age..."