Now I would like to tell my mureeds something about the Gathas which they hear in the sacred readings. It is the privilege of the initiated in the Sufi Order to hear the Gathas first. No doubt a time will come when these Gathas will be given to a larger population. But just now this privilege my mureeds will appreciate, and instead of speaking about the Gathas will live them in their own lives, and show the others -- without trying to correct them or teach them -- the example worked out in your own life.

No serious work may succeed if it is not tried. Your privilege it is to receive this, and that will make the Message a real message to others. And please remember that truth is the share of the sincerest. The more sincerity is developed, the greater share of truth you will have. And however much sincerity a person may have, there is always a gap to fill, for we live in the midst of falsehood, and we are always apt to be carried away by this world of falsehood. Therefore we must never think we are sincere enough, and we must always be on our guard against influences which may carry us away from that sincerity which is the bridge between ourselves and our ideal. No study, no meditation is more helpful than sincerity itself.

It is by the love of truth that truth can be realized. Your respect for Murshid, your devotion to the Message you will show in your esteem for the teachings given to you. If you find them simple, you must think that all things of real value are simple. If you find them complex, you may know that the truth will not take very long to be understood. For we will all agree that it is best that in our sacred readings all arguments are kept out, in order to follow the path of truth. There must be harmony between the mureeds, between mureeds and Murshid. And this harmony is to be realized by your patience in the teachings given to you.

You need not be impatient for the progress you make on the spiritual path, for you must be sure of the fact that your Murshid is more enthusiastic and more keen about your progress than you yourself are. If he does not push you forward too quickly, it is not the lack of interest, nor is it the lack of fair dealing on his part. What could be more pleasing to the parents than the progress of their own children? So it is with your Murshid. If you progress in advancement, it is to my content, to my credit: it is my great benefit. In the path of truth you have to have the same tendencies as the travellers on the ship towards the captain: the sure trust that he is doing his duty to his best. If anyone should go to the captain and say, "I think you are going more to the north than to the south; this is not the place I want to go to," that poor captain would be so confused that he should not know what to do. Shall he go backward or forward? I hope this my mureeds will understand.

And now coming to our attitude as far as the Message is concerned. I believe without doubt that the Message is not only for some certain nation or some certain class of people. The Message is for all nations, and for every soul living on the earth. Not one soul there is, either of friend or foe, saint or sinner, that has nothing to do with the Message, nor one nation in the world which will be kept untouched by it. And if this is true, it is absurd on our part to say that this person must come to us, and the other person not. Or that this particular place is for the Message and the other place not. When a worker who is working in another country writes to me that that place is difficult to work in and that people are not ready yet, I think that that particular mureed/worker is not yet ready himself, and the difficulties surpass his faith. If I were dwelling in the forest where no man was to be seen, I would still have worked among the animals and have dug deep into the rocks in order to bring out the spirit.

What attitude must we then have? We must not allow ourselves to become discouraged. We must not allow any pessimistic feeling to rise in our souls. If the whole world stood against us, we shall still stand firm without being disappointed, for the Message is the promise of God, and its domain is all the domain which belongs to God and is in every heart. And its work is in every nation. No people are to be left out. And you, my mureeds, who stand by my side in this world, at this moment when it has not yet begun, your response must be great. You must realize this every day, and be ready to do all in your power to make the Message of God spread and to make your Murshid's task easy.