Make your meditation so intense that its effect lasts throughout all the day's activities. Do not be too busy to seek the One who created you. If you become king of the world, what then? If you conquer all nations, what then?
One
day you will find you are dying and helpless. Why should you crave to own
worldly things? They can be taken away from you anytime—as they surely will
when you pass through the portals of death. Rather, make the effort to know
that Something which can never be wrested from you.
God
is the most uncertain to those who do not meditate, yet the yogi knows Him as
the most dependable Certainty. And "great will be their reward" who
find Him. Real happiness I have seen in the great yogis of India. Their earthly
abode may be only a humble cave; but they are kings smiling with the joy of
God, the King of kings, secure in their power over all creation.
Realize
that to attain this consciousness of God is your ultimate and most worthwhile
goal; I am telling you all the steps so that you know how to get there. It is
not just sitting quietly and saying a little prayer that will give you
God-realization; it is churning the silence with your prayer and desire for
God. The result will be something wonderful.
You
must make the effort: I am not here to feed you with words, but to nourish your
soul with the love of God. From my researches in the laboratory of life, I have
found eternal pleasure.
Sri Paramahansa Yogananda
