Reading, hearing [explanations], praying, jap-tap, sadhana do not make one enter the Path. By these means, instead of freeing ourselves, we get more and more bound. I tell you this on my own authority. You may fast indefinitely, you may hang upside down, you may knock your brains out on stones, yet they will never lead you to the Path.
I will explain. Suppose one stops eating. This in itself creates bindings because the mind is still functioning and impressions are created. Doing anything — sleeping or keeping awake, movement, running, breathing — everything creates impressions. This complication of sanskaras is always there, and it is impossible for you to free yourselves from it! But I will tell you how you can get free.
There are three remedies for these self-created bindings. For every individual here, the whole world exists because of the I. Because I am, the whole world is. Because Dhake is there, the whole world is there [for him]. Because of us the world exists. When we enter deep sleep, we are not at all conscious of ourselves, of this world or anything else. Now, I am here. It is because of my existence that all of you are here. Had Dhake not existed, these things would not have existed for him.
How to get ourselves out of these entanglements of impressions? It is through the impression that I exist and because of my existence that this whole cosmos exists. Eternally we are all one God. Every day, when we enter into the sound sleep state, the sound sleep state is the most original God state, and for any individual in that state there exists nothing except himself — of which he is unconscious. When we wake up, through the mind we again become conscious of this duality, because the sanskaras wake us up. Again we retire into our original state and again we find ourselves in this cage [of maya]. Although daily we enter into our most original state, we know not of it, and again become aware of this duality.
Now what is required is that we must be conscious in our most original state of sound sleep with wide open eyes all the time, and then we will experience only Oneness and know that we are God. But it is so totally impossible. Why? Because we have I [ego] with us.
God is infinitely more vital to our existence than our own breath, which is our very life.