The other kind of love is divine love, and that can be had [only] by complete renunciation of the whole world. But this does not mean that you leave your family, children and your worldly responsibilities. Not outward, but mental renunciation is of importance, and that can [only] be had by the grace of the Perfect Master. Is it clear to you?
There are three kinds of conviction: The first kind is called intellectual conviction — conviction through the intellect. That means that through a definite understanding, through reading, that God exists.
The second type of conviction is through sight. One who is on the Path sees God in everything and everywhere. This conviction through sight is greater than conviction through intellect.
The third type of conviction is through becoming one with God. That is the real conviction, the realization of God. One who has realized God knows that he alone is. He has the real and continuous experience of infinite knowledge, power and bliss.
The difference between this real experience of God-realization and the false experiences gotten through taking drugs is that the former is a continuous experience without a break, whereas experiences gotten through drugs are not continuous. Drug experiences are false and harmful, physically, mentally and spiritually.
God is because you are; you are because God is. But that experience only one in a million can have.
Jagat Murari interjected, "What is your message [to mankind]?"
"My message is that the goal of life is the Realization of God. All else is a dream."
"How can one become one with God?"
"I have explained: through love. That love is a gift of God by the grace of the Perfect Masters."
Van Gasteren then asked, "Do you think that the experience of watching a film is also a form of meditation?"
Eruch was interpreting Baba's gestures, speaking for him:
Baba will tell you about it. First, one important point is that this is the 43rd year of my silence. It is a continuous silence, without any break. Almost every year, I tell my followers that next year I will break my silence. And yet, I continue to be silent.
It is like the doctor who knows that it will take a month to cure his patient. Yet, when he sees the patient, he wants to comfort him, so he says, "Don't worry. After seven days you will be all right." Every week the doctor repeats this, and in due time the patient does get well.