All activities of man must result in cleansing his chittha - the levels of awareness. When these are done as offerings to God, they advance this cleansing process a great deal. The way a person works, he/she shapes their own destiny. Work is sublimated into worship which fructifies into wisdom. The flower is Work (karma), the emerging fruit is Worship (bhakthi) and the ripe sweet fruit is Wisdom (jnaana). It is one continuous and spontaneous process, this spiritual fulfillment of the spiritual aspirant. They are like childhood, youth and old age, each imperceptibly growing into the succeeding stage.

- Divine Discourse, November 21, 1981.

Just as the end of culture is progress,
and the end of knowledge is love, the end of wisdom is freedom. - Baba