“In such a mahātma's antaḥkaraṇa there is no impurity of the guṇas rajas and tamas. Only those whose antaḥkaraṇa is so pure are called ‘mahātmas’. But in these days ‘mahātma’ is only a name, while in the antaḥkaraṇa impurities of every kind have hardened until they cannot be moved. For those who have true purity of the antaḥkaraṇa there are no more births and deaths. They need not come to the world again. Without it, however many meritorious deeds one may do, whatever state one may achieve, whatever world one may go to, the return cannot be escaped. Only the mahātmas who remain ever in the sense of being Brahman reach Me, who am beyond time, and, with no such thing as rebirth, attain the very form of oneness with Me,” He said.