5th January, 1936

Talk 128.

There were some French ladies and gentlemen and American as visitors to the Asramam. They asked Sri Bhagavan 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 Sri Bhagavan 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-terminal, eternal.