“Searching for the truth, seeking the eternal life, you will find many moments which are unbelievable. Even though you are in those moments completely soaked, still the moment and its beauty is such – its golden glory is such – that it seems too good to be true. It is certainly too good, and it is too good because it is too true.

“Many people have lost their path, stuck in a kind of fear. Anything overwhelming, like a great cloud surrounding you… If you don’t know that it is a friend, you are going to be so afraid that you won’t allow the same experience to happen again.

“Remember that in the beginning every experience on the path is a great shock. Your very roots are shaken. Whatever you have believed to be true is no longer true. Whatever you have been thinking of as real, is dream stuff, and whatever you have never thought about seems to be the ultimate reality. The change is so much and so quick that it is natural for human beings to be afraid. But the fear is only because you are ignorant of the experience.

“These are the moments when the master is needed to say to you that the overwhelming cloud of unknowing, of innocence, is a good sign, is indicative that greater things are going to happen. It shows that you are on the right path.

“And you have to learn not to feel a stranger in a situation which is unknown to you because now, every day, more and more unknown will open itself to you. That too is a training for a further and final step… the unknowable. Everything is very systematic. There is no chaos inside you. If you can pass one step, you will necessarily reach the second step.

“The second step is going to be even bigger because you will be melting into the unknowable. In the unknowable, you cannot remain separate. You can have a separate flame of light, but in the roots you will be joined with the whole. Only the flame will be free, but in the roots you will be universal. And the question of freedom is meaningless because there is no one except you in the world. It is only you, in different faces, in different eyes, in different people, in birds, in animals, in trees. It is your consciousness.

“Unless one knows that he is the whole, he is not religious. He has not touched the nectar which makes him immortal, which makes him a god, part of the innermost reality of existence. We have only forgotten. Nothing is lost. Nothing can be lost; it is your very nature.

“That overwhelming experience was not coming from outside, it was your own fragrance. Because you cannot see it, you felt it as outside yourself. It was your own joy, your own peace, your own silence that was radiating. It takes a little time to be acquainted with the inner territory of your being. But once you are acquainted with it, you have found the center of the world.”