Every passing day truly becomes holy, when you sanctify it by sadhana, not otherwise. Spiritual practices (Sadhana) can grow only in a field fertilised by love and nonviolence. Love or Prema is absolutely essential for devotion to God (bhakti). The love you have towards material objects, name, fame, wife and children, etc., should be sanctified by being subsumed by the more overpowering Love of God. Add two spoons of water to two seers of milk, the water too is appreciated as milk! At present your sadhana can be described only as mixing two litres of water with two spoons of milk, isn’t it? Let love for God fill and thrill your heart; then, you cannot hate any one, you cannot indulge in unhealthy rivalries, and you will not find fault with any one. Life will become soft, sweet and smooth.

- Divine Discourse, Jan 1, 1967.