What is sadhana?
Sadhana is the transformation of fearful love into fearless love.

This meditation (sadhana) for complete merger, for unification, starts with fearful love.
Love must be there. Unless and until there is love, there cannot be unification.

It is unnecessary to leave the world, to leave service to humanity and to go to the Himalayas to attain the Supreme Consciousness. This universe itself is the Supreme Consciousness – where will you go by leaving it?

In the world a person thinks that they are not able to concentrate their mind because of the din and bustle; but in the cave of the Himalayas they think that they cannot get sweet fruit in a particular jungle, and hence tomorrow they will go and pick ripe plums two or three miles away in a different forest. In either place they are not free.

To understand my nature you must do meditation. I keep no ambiguity, I am clear, concrete, conclusive. My philosophy is a complete philosophy, a complete way of life. I am complete in myself, and I want every person to be complete in themselves. I am like an arrow – clear, pointed.

If one could visualise the original form of the Supreme Entity, all the apparent external differences would vanish into nothingness. In fact, the fundamental spirit of intuitional practice is to realize the Supreme Unity in the midst of diversity.

The Supreme Consciousness has concealed Himself within your mind. He is hidden behind the curtain of your “I-ness”. You need not go to the Himalayan mountains to find out the thing that is concealed in your own “I”. Does one need a mirror to see the bangle on one’s hand? The Supreme, therefore, is within you. There is need only of removing the veil of ego.

In simple terms, what we have to do is to return home from where we came. We have all come from the Supreme Entity, the Nucleus of the universe. We have to return to the same destination.

The child has played throughout the day away in the fields, and now that evening has come, he returns home. He thinks that his father must have returned home: “Let me return home and sit near him.”

When one is tired of this world and worldliness, one yearns to go back to spirituality – one’s home. And what is our permanent abode, our home? The Supreme Consciousness.

Spiritual practice (sa’dhana’), therefore, is the process of returning home. It is a simple task. It requires no scholarship, no knowledge, no intellectual faculty, no long and tedious lecturing.