There were some French ladies and gentlemen and Americans as visitors to the Āśramam. They asked Śrī Bhagavān several questions. Among them, one was: “What is the message of the East to the West?”
M.: All go to the same goal.
To another question Śrī Bhagavān said: “How do you say ‘I am’? Do you take a light to find yourself? Or did you come to know it on reading books? How?”
The questioner said: “By experience.”
M.: Yes. Experience is the word. Knowledge implies subject and object. But experience is non-terminous, eternal,