How should a true devotee shape one’s conduct? Bhagawan lovingly guides us today with a ‘sweet’ example.

Love for the Lord should not degenerate into fanaticism and hatred of other names and forms. Nowadays, this type of cancer is affecting even eminent men. You must avoid it. Believe that all who revere the Lord and walk in fear of sin are your brothers, your nearest kith and kin. Their outer dress or language or skin colour, or even methods they adopt to express their reverence and fear are not important at all. Sugar dolls are valued for the sugar, not the shapes they are given by the manufacturer. Their sweetness makes men purchase them; it doesn't matter whether they are elephants, dogs, cats, rats, jackals or lions. That is a matter of individual fancy. Each is sweet, that is the essential thing. The sweetness draws the manava (man) towards Madhava (God); pravritti (external deed) towards nivritti (inner path), ananda (happiness) towards Sat-Chit-Ananda (Bliss in the awareness of the Supreme Being). When the appetite for these grows, all low desires and such hunger cease!