Wine is prepared by the crushing and further crushing of grapes, when it acquires the capacity for intoxication, which usually takes away one's command of understanding. Close and repeated feeling of love for God also brings intoxication, but this takes you toward true understanding. This understanding is not gained through reason or intellect. As long as you remain separated from God and try to understand Him, He cannot be understood. There is no separation between you and God. Lover and Beloved are One. You yourself are the Way. You are God.

The Word that I will speak will go to the world as from God, not as from a philosopher; it will go straight to its heart. With the dawn of the realization of the Unity of all life, hatred and dissension will come to an end. There will be unfaltering love and unfailing understanding and men shall be united in an inviolable brotherhood, based on the realized Oneness of God.

My message always has been and always will be Love Divine. When one wholeheartedly loves God, one eventually loses oneself in the Beloved and enters the Eternal Life of God.

Like a Tree, this Love has branches: branches of wholehearted devotion, perfect non-violence, perfect selfless service, self-denial, self-sacrifice, self-renunciation, truth and self-annihilation.

In this Love are embodied all the Yogas known to saints and seekers. The highest aspect of this Love, which surpasses that of love itself, is the aspect of complete Surrenderance to the Will of the Beloved, that is, absolute obedience to His wishes, whatever the cost.

Each and every seemingly individual soul (Atman) is destined to realize its One Indivisible Self. As soon as the Atman begins to unfold to the first faint consciousness of its Infinite and Eternal State, it is confronted by its own Shadow. The Atman gets immediately lost in the consciousness of this