Strive - that is your duty. Yearn, that is your task.
Struggle, that is your assignment. If only you do these,
sincerely and steadily, God cannot keep back for long the reward of
realization. The river strives, yearns and struggles to merge
with the sea from which it came. It has that consummation ever
alert in its consciousness. It attempts to make itself pure
and pellucid so that it may be welcomed by its source. It
overcomes every obstacle of terrain in order to journey successfully
towards it goal. Similarly, you too must utilize all the
physical, mental, intellectual, moral and material endowments that
God has granted you so that you may journey to the goal of
Realization.
- Divine Discourse,
Feb 16 1977