"God's work has to be perfect; hence there is no space for evolution. Evolution can happen only when things are imperfect.

"The children found a way. They collected many insects, dissected them – took out some insect's head, some other insect's leg, some other insect's body, and piece by piece they joined and glued a totally new insect which God has not created. And they went to Charles Darwin, saying, 'We have brought an insect that perhaps you would love to know. We have never seen this. Just today we have found it.'

"Charles Darwin himself was a little taken aback: he had gone around the world, but he had never seen such an insect. Then he looked closely and he saw that the head belonged to some other insect – he could see the glue and he could see the children's inventiveness – and the children wanted to know the name of the bug.

"Charles Darwin said, 'I know it. Its name is humbug.'

"Ta Hui reminds me…he is a humbug. He has been moving from one master to another master and he was collecting things – something from one person, something from another person. He has made a good collection and glued it perfectly well, but he cannot deceive one who knows the truth. And all the masters he had visited may not have been enlightened. Some certainly must have been enlightened, because there are a few statements which only an enlightened man can make. But there are a few others which only unenlightened moralists, puritans – that kind of people – can make. They are good people; they mean well, their intentions are good, but they don't know that just to mean well is not enough.

"You should be at the very source of your being, where you can feel these three things: goodness, beauty and truth. In India we have called it the experience of sat-chit-anand – that is one expression. The other expression of the three is satyam, shivam, sunderam. I would like you to understand both statements, because they contain the very gist of the religious experience.

"Sat-chit-anand is made of three words: sat, which means ultimate truth; chit, which means ultimate consciousness; anand, which means ultimate bliss."