Can a person reach perfection by love alone, without meditation? Man meditates because he cannot really love. The word love is misinterpreted, misunderstood; we use it in everyday life without knowing what it means. When once the soul begins to understand what it means, it is a word too sacred to utter; no one can profess to love, for love should make us just and able to see our shortcomings and infirmities. Once the flame of love is kindled in the heart one feels so ashamed of oneself that one can no more say, "I love." People mostly fall in love, as one says in English; but they never rise, though what is intended is to rise through love, not to fall. All inspirations are revealed and the mysteries and secrets of life manifest to the view of the one whose heart is prepared by love; all kinds of virtue spring from it.