When once you have heard the voice of God, you are on the way to the highest states of consciousness. You will know God as immanent and,,,
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So, from tonight, get busy! Pray with all the devotion of your heart, and you will see God; you will see Jesus or Krishna or the saints. But you must make the supreme effort to behold Them in meditation, or you will not be able to reach that divine state. I hope that you will try. When a halfhearted man plays the piano, the result is halfhearted, without inspiration. But when an individual who has practised and practised and practiced plays the piano, everyone says, “Oh, how wonderful!”
When an ordinary man puts the necessary time and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer, he becomes a divine man. My Master used to say: “The little cat that goes into the jungle becomes a wild cat.” The little man with small thoughts who goes into the jungle of books becomes absorbed in intellectualism about God; he doesn’t find the nectar of God-realization. But the little man who meditates, who constantly thinks of the joy of God, who constantly prays to Him, becomes one with the Infinite.
When once you have heard the voice of God, you are on the way to the highest states of consciousness. You will know God as immanent and transcendent, personal and impersonal. You will worship Him as Spirit, and love Him in manifest form as the Nearest of the near.
Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda.
The Divine Romance. P.386-387.
[Personal And Impersonal God]
