Bhagavan: Where are you now? Where is the goal? What is the distance to be covered? The Self is not somewhere far away to be reached. You are always that. You have only to give up your habit, a long-standing one, of identifying yourself with the non-self. All effort is only for that. By turning the mind outwards, you have been seeing the world, the non-Self. If you turn it inwards you will see the Self.
After this discourse, Lokamma began singing a Tamil song. Bhagavan at once said: “Mother used to sing this song very often. This repeats the very same thing we have been talking about now.” There upon I asked Bhagavan who the author of the song was.
He said, “Avudai Ammal. She has composed a great many songs. They are very popular in those parts (Madura and other nearby districts). Some of them have been published. Still so many remain unpublished.