One of the first requirements of the aspirant is that he should combine unfailing enthusiasm with unyielding patience.

If you have the Grace of the Avatar, He just takes you from where you are to where you should be, where God wants you to be.

God-realization is, sometimes mistakenly thought to be a selfish purpose of the limited individual. There is no room for any selfishness or limited individuality in God-realization.

On the contrary, God-realization is the final aim of the limited and narrow life of the separate ego.

It not only consists in the attainment by the individual of an inviolable unity with all Life, but it also dynamically expresses this final realization of the Truth through a spontaneous and undivided life of Love, Peace and Harmony.