How can we experience enduring happiness and bliss? How much time is needed to acquire this experience? Bhagawan explains with a memorable example.   Look at the bee! It has contact only with sweetness; it approaches only flowers that possess nectar; it is not attracted to other places; it doesn’t proceed there at all. Similarly, one has to give up all inclinations toward sensory attractions, toward the rubbish cart of the untrue and the impermanent. As far as possible, one has to direct the mind to all holy things, which yield sweetness and the joy associated with the Lord. To attain these, time is needed, of course. How long that time will be, depends on the activities of thought, word, and deed as well as on the motives that impel those actions.  If one examines deeply the success in getting rid of all idea of self, one can oneself gauge the progress one has made! Instead, if one is engaged in counting the rules and adding up the time spent and the expense incurred, such meditation can belong only to the objective world; it can never come into the subjective and spiritual fields!