Meher Baba said: - The goal of life is to know God, and find him as our own Self+.

People think love is the means to Self-realization, but they are unaware that love and hate are made of the same stuff. Love is not the means of Self–realization.

Love is very much necessary in practical life within the practical world. Love implies duality. Whatever is of duality is falsehood. Thus, love is reality within the falsehood. Lover and love cease to exist in reality because the duality is not a reality.

The experience of practical life within the practical world is a reality within the waking experience, but the waking experience itself is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

Thus, lover, love, and the world are one, in essence. Thus, the path of love is religious because religion is a path of individuality.

The Self is not an individual to love or hate. In Atmic reality, there is no second thing that exists other than consciousness.

Thus, there is no duality, whereas love implies duality. The Self is fullness of consciousness. The invisible Soul, the Self, is the formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

Humanism is limited to practical life within the practical world. The path of love is a path for humanity; therefore, it is an individualized path. This path of love is limited to the physical structure; it cannot transport one to the ultimate end.

Thus, the seeker has to realize that, from the standpoint of the invisible Soul, the Self, the practical life and practical world are merely an illusion.

Meher Baba said: - To love God as he ought to be loved, we must love for God and die for God, knowing that the goal of life is to know God, and find him as our own Self.

To realize God is to attain liberation from the bondage of illusion.

Live only to find and realize your true identity with your beloved God.

The energy which is expended in mere thinking, taking, or writing is like steam which escapes through the whistle of a railway engine …

That is why the sages have always insisted on practice rather than theory. This applies particularly to those who want to know and realize God.

~ It means one has to know and realize the innermost Self is God and identify it as his true identity to find liberation from the bondage of the illusion of birth, life, death, and the world (duality).

The goal of our life is to find and realize our identity with our beloved God, which is the innermost Self. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar