Transcend anekatva bhava (the consciousness of the many) and cultivate ekatva bhava (the consciousness of the One); that will end strife, grief, pain and pride. See all as but expressions of the same God, as appearances on the same screen, as bulbs lit by the same current, though of manifold colours and wattage. (SSS Vol.7, p. 33)

How is it possible to transcend the ego through seva? By savouring the seva with Love, work can be transformed into worship. When the work is offered to God, it gets sanctified into Puja. This makes it free from ego. It is also freed from the earthly desire for success and the earthly fear of failure. You feel that when you have done the work as best you can, your Puja is accomplished; now it is for Him who has accepted the Puja to confer what He considers best. This attitude will make the work Nishkama, unattached. Regular practice of this discipline will render the consciousness clear and pure. It will promote chitta-shuddhi. Without this primary equipment of a pure consciousness, how can man ever hope to scale spiritual heights? Almost all the great sages of the past spent the early years of their lives in sadhana that would ensure a pure consciousness. However prosperous your career might be, however much you might accumulate the wherewithal for a comfortable life, to whatever heights of authority you might have climbed through the exercise of your intelligence, your gains shall be nil unless your every activity is suffused with the Divine purity inherent in the consciousness. (SSS Vol.10, p. 97)

Every being that is in the universe has the potentiality of transcending the senses. Even the little worm will one day transcend the senses and reach God. No life will be a failure.’ (LIG, p.53)