All paths are right; only some are easier, some more circuitous, some hard. The easiest way of grasping the basic reality is to see the Lord in every creature, the Lord sporting in all this multiplicity, as the underlying reality of all, the Sarvabhuta antaratma (Indweller in all Beings). You might wonder and even doubt how it is possible for the Lord to dwell in every being. But have you not seen one single mango seed grow into a tree which gives thousands of fruits, in each of which there is to be found a seed identical to the one which was first planted? So too, the one Lord can be found in every being created by His Will. (SSS Vol.1)

Let me tell you that you cannot understand Me and My Secret without first understanding yourselves. For, if you are too weak to grasp your own Reality, how can you hope to fathom the much grander Reality of My advent? To grasp My meaning, you have to tear into tatters the doubts and theories you now have and cultivate Prema, for the embodiment of Prema can be understood only through Prema. (SSS Vol.1)

Your reality is Satyam (Truth), Shivam (Goodness) and Sundaram (Beauty). Experience this Truth and that gives the highest Bliss. (SSS Vol.8, p. 5)

The different kinds of love and living organisms are infinite in number. Nevertheless, reality has three main aspects, namely, the empirical reality, the illusory reality and the absolute reality. These three categories of human existence correspond to three levels of consciousness, viz. ‘Jagrata’ or the consciousness of wakefulness, ‘Swapna’ or the sub-consciousness of dreams and ‘Sushupti’ or the unconsciousness of deep slumber. Waves of water are more real than the surf on the seashore. Similarly, the basic substance of water is more real than waves. Likewise, spiritual life is more real than mundane life; mundane life is more fundamental and more real than the dreams of the subconscious mind. (SSB 1979, p. 52)

You are God in reality. It is the God in you that guides you and guards you. When you deny God, it is tantamount to your arguing, ‘I am born of a barren woman’, or asserting very vociferously ‘I am incurably dumb!’ It is as absurd as denying yourself. This great Truth is well explained in the scriptures of this land; and every one of you has the right to know this heritage. (SSS Vol.9, pp. 68-69)

What has to be discarded is the Deha, this physical case; what has to be earned is Parabrahman, the Universal Absolute. The Deha has within it, your Reality, your Swarupam, the un-discardable, indestructible, undying. Satyam and Nityam. The Reality is the entity called Atma, or what is the same thing; Paramatma. Since you are that, you cannot cast it off. (GV, p. 141)

Bring your thoughts constantly back to the Atma, which is the substance of all the objective world, the basic Reality behind all this appearance. (SSS Vol.1, p. 67)

Until the wound heals and the new skin hardens, the bandage must protect the place. So, too, until Reality is realised the balm of faith, of holy company, and holy thoughts must be applied to the ego-affected mind. (SSS Vol.4, p. 104)

The thought manifests as word, the word manifests as deed; the deed develops into habit; the habit hardens into character. So, watch the thought and its ways. Let it spring from love, love that is born out of respect for all beings, for, all beings are Divine. You are all embodiments of the Divine. Never forget that Reality. (SSS Vol.10)

The fundamentals have to be considered by the new seeker. The basic thing is the hand, the cup it holds is secondary. The entire creation based upon the five elements is of less importance than Basic Reality, the Pure Existence. When you cannot reach down to your own Basic Reality, why waste time exploring the Essence of God-head?... You can understand Me only when you have understood yourself, your own Basic Truth. (FG, p. 128)

God is the Inner Reality of all beings. With the vision fixed on Sathya or the Reality, with full faith in the Absolute which is your own essential nature, you can by-pass the need to transform the external world to suit ideas of happiness and the Truth - Law can be attained. Your Reality is the Self, a wave of the Over-Self. The one object of this human existence is to visualise that Reality, that Self, that relationship between the wave and the Sea. All other activities are trivial; you share them with birds and beasts; but this is the unique privilege of Man. Bliss is the nature of the Self, your own innermost Reality. That Reality is reminding you of its existence, with every breath that you take; Soham. When you are in deep sleep, the breath then says, not Soham but, Om. Om is the real form of the Divinity, the Reality, behind all this ‘relative unreality’. (BSS, p. 4-5)

What is the first name of this Reality? Neither Atma nor Daiva (God) nor even ‘Aum’ is the first name. In fact ‘I’ is the first name of Divinity. This ‘I’ is frequently used in daily life for ‘I’ is the basis for all our deeds. ‘I’ is the vital breath, the self, the Over self and everything. (SSB 1993, p. 30)