God can be realised through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
Some call on the Lord, “Rama”, some cry, “Khuda”, Some bow to Him as Gosain, some as Allah; He is called the Ground of Grounds and also the Bountiful, The Compassionate One and Gracious.
The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of Divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for until the cord be broken, the bird cannot fly.
Only the person having firm conviction and iron volition can attain strength and energy. At no stage of karma does he ever hesitate.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book?
When you go beyond awareness, there is a state of non-duality, in which there is no cognition, only pure being. All separation ceases.
