What is the mistake we make in our spiritual pursuit? How can we start making amends? Bhagawan clearly guides us today.

Man today is like a horseman riding two horses at the same time. He aspires for the Divine, but also yearns for worldly pleasures. He forgets that the creator contains the creation. Forgetting this truth, he goes after the phenomenal world, regarding it as different from the Divine. He is foolish like the man who cries for ghee while having milk in his hand, not realising that ghee is latent in the milk. Today's devotees study the Vedas and other scriptures as a ritual but do not put into practice any of the injunctions contained in these. Of what avail is it merely to know how the Vedas or Upanishads have described the Divine? If this book lore is not reflected in one’s life, it is like a blind man who hears about the existence of the world, but cannot see it. There is no difference between this physically blind man and the spiritually blind person who merely studies the scriptures. The scriptures are intended to provide guides for practical living and not merely to be learnt by rote.