The truth is you are nobody. You are nothing. Yet you are everything. How can you be nobody and everything? Because, You're not one thing. Notice when I stop talking, how quiet it becomes, in your mind. This is the state I am referring to, the state in between thoughts, when there is nothing going on, in that second, in that moment, when the mind is totally quiet, the thoughts are not moving any longer. This is your true self, in that moment in between thoughts. Stay in that moment. Learn to put yourself in that state, whether you are in the market place or you are in a temple, wherever you are, learn to be still. It makes no difference what is going on around you. It makes no difference what other people are doing. You be still. When you are still, then there's peace. When you are still, there is happiness. Most of us have been taught that to be happy we have to receive something good. We have to have something nice happen to us to be happy, otherwise we are miserable. Yet the truth is, happiness is your very nature, unalloyed happiness, eternal happiness. You have to go way beyond thoughts, way beyond reasoning, way beyond anything and everything you have ever understood, to be consciousness, to understand consciousness. In order to do this, everything you believe must be dropped. Everything you have been led to understand must be transcended. Everything that you can think about has to go. Your ideas of right and wrong, good and bad, up and down, frontwards and sideways, all these things have to be totally transcended, totally removed from your thinking patterns.

"Will it be possible to see our image in a mirror completely covered with dust? Wipe away the dust particles and clean the mirror, then look and definitely you will see. Our true face is God. Clean away the impurities of the mind through spiritual practices and it will be revealed to you" - Amma.

Take the case of great yogis like Swami Vivekananda. They did not work for themselves but the amount of work which that man did until the age of 39 when he passed away, 100 people cannot do in 100 years. How did he do that? His inner energy that takes over; one becomes very resourceful in the selfless action one is doing. So one does not become foolish by doing yoga or meditation.