Mistaking God

“You speak as if you are here, and the Self is somewhere else and you had to go and reach it…But in fact the Self is here and now, and you are always It. It is like being here and asking people the way to the ashram, then complaining that each one shows a different path and asking which to follow.” —Sri Ramana Maharshi (from World Wisdom)

The statement above speaks “only” of the Soul Within. The “Self” mentioned is not God but the Soul or Zenith of the mind. We must evolve to God from the material to the material-spiritual. We may learn about the Soul-Within and even experience the bliss of God from the Inward Path mentioned above, but we must evolve with the Spirit-Within, the Will To Godhood, through the Outward Path to Godhood.