Love is the fruit of life. The fruit has three components - the skin, the juicy kernel and the seed. To experience the fruit, we have first to remove the skin. The skin represents egoism, the 'I' feeling, the excluding, limiting, individualizing principle. The seed represents 'selfishness', the 'mine' feeling, the possessive, the greedy, desireful principle. This too has to be discarded. What remains is the sweet juice, the rasa, which the scriptures describe as Divine, the Love Supreme.
- Divine Discourse, December 25, 1981.
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