It is not through intellectual exercises and such learning, or knowledge acquired by reading or hearing lectures, that spiritual truths can be understood.

At the most, these can give one an intellectual understanding, which is the first preparatory stage for ushering one into the Path.

What is essential is a true inner feeling, an actual experience of the Truth, which is real, lasting and convincing.

When one experiences union with God, one knows by actual experience that one is in harmony with everything and everyone, that there is nothing but one infinite indivisible existence, and all else is but fleeting shadows.

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Man cannot escape his glorious destiny of Self-realisation and no amount of suffering that he passes through on the way to it can ever be too much.