God has four qualities and it is only when you cultivate them that can you understand them. They are Prema (love), Soundarya (beauty), Madhurya (sweetness) and Shoba (splendor). Cultivation of Prema is enough to add unto you, the other three. When you are immersed in the love for the Divine, immanent in all creation, you perceive beauty everywhere and you experience the acme of sweetness, your mind loses its separate identity and merges in the universal mind in all its splendor.
(Tfd, 29 March '04)
