Many try to become realized by offering various types of puja, chanting mantras, singing hymns and repeating the name of God. These people are trying to find God by using their sense organs. But how can the unlimited be attained through limited sense organs?
You may do puja as you like. You may chant mantras or repeat the name of God as you wish. But after that you must meditate. After meditation you may again continue to do your puja or you may repeat the name of God. But meditation is essential. It is the lone passage to go beyond the mundane world, and to be merged into God consciousness.
You are God in human form. This is your inheritance, but you are ignorant of that. After learning the techniques of meditation from a realized master, you should put it into practice whole-heartedly. In this way you will evolve in the spiritual path.
Kriya yoga is open to all religions. Meditation can grant you success, and all-round development in life. You will feel that you are God in human form and a human being in God.
Stitha Prajna - Jan 2003