Lastly there is another step forward, and that is revelation. It needs a certain amount of spiritual progress to believe that there is such a thing as revelation. Life is revealing, nature is revealing, and so is God; that is why God is called Khuda in Persian, which means self-revealing. All science and art, and all culture known to man have come originally, and still come, by revelation.

In other words a person does not only learn by studying, but he also draws knowledge from humanity.
A child not only inherits his father's or his ancestors' qualities but also the qualities of his nation, of his race,
so that one can say that man inherits the qualities of the entire human race.

If one realized profoundly that storehouse of knowledge which exists behind the veil which covers it, one would find that one has a right to this heritage; and this gives one a key, a key to understand the secret of life: that knowledge is not only gained from outside but also from within.

Thus one may call knowledge that one learns from outer life "learning", but knowledge that one draws from within may be called "revelation".

Revelation comes from within. It makes the heart self-revealing; it is just like a new birth of the soul.

When one has come to this state, then everything and every being is living; a rock, a tree, the air, the sky, the stars, all are living.
Then a person begins to communicate with all things and all beings.
Wherever his glance falls, on nature, on characters, he reads their history, he sees their future.
Every person he meets, before he has spoken one word with him he begins to communicate with his soul.
Before he has asked any question, the soul begins to tell its own history.
Every person and every object stand before him as an open book.

Then there no longer exists in him that continual "why" one finds so often in people. "Why" no longer exists, for he finds the answer to every question in himself. And as long as that answer is not created, in spite of all the learning of this world that is taught to man, that continual "why" will exist.

Again one may ask, how does one arrive at this revelation? And the answer is that there is nothing in the whole of the universe which is not to be found in man if he only cares to discover it. But if he will not find it out no one will give it to him, for truth is not learned; truth is discovered.

It is with this belief that sages of the East went into the solitude and sat meditating in order to give that revelation an opportunity to arise. No doubt as life is at present there is hardly time for a man to go into the solitude. But that does not mean that man should remain ignorant of the best that is within himself; for compared with this great bliss which is revelation, all other treasures of the earth are nothing; they cannot be compared.

Revelation is the magic lamp of Aladdin; once discovered it throws its light to the right and to the left, and all things become clear.