When we think of this it shows that brotherhood is needed everywhere. No man who has some sense of divine ideal, will deny the fact that brotherhood is the main thing which . . . It is a great pity that religions, whether in the East or West, have their own creeds and Church. When it comes to brotherhood they say, "We have our brotherhood, you have yours." Each thinks, "They have their own brotherhood." Therefore the work of the Sufi Movement is not to create a Sufi Brotherhood. It is not a brotherhood, but a means to create a brotherhood, it is working for a human brotherhood.

There is a necessity of a certain organization. Therefore the organization has not only supplied the need for brotherhood, but also it has helped to support the two activities. The one part is the devotional part; what the world is lacking today is devotional attitude. People study and they want to practice if they can attain some certain power. But [what] they lack is devotion, which means the lack of a fuller life. If there is a trace of God to be found, it is in the heart of man. If it is not open enough, then the natural flow is closed, and the life becomes incomplete. To live a complete life is to live a life of that sympathy and friendliness which pours out on another person; to the one who deserves it in the form of love, to the one who does not deserve it in the form of tolerance.

Therefore if we have any religious work it is the work of recognizing that great spirit, which is called the Christ-spirit, in all different aspects, names, houses of worship. It is not to limit that spirit to a certain community or creed, but to find it as a spiritual . . . and recognizing it as such, that in whatever time or period if there has been a spiritual awakening, a guidance given, it all has been given from one and the same source. It is for us to know it as one; that if there has come enlightenment to people it has come from one source, instead of quarreling about it. Whenever it has come it has come from one life and one source. And if there have been different scriptures and teachers, they have been just veils of one truth. Why dispute over names? The spirit is one, God is one, religion and truth are one.