Those great souls who have brought the message of God to humanity from time to time, like Buddha, Krishna, Jesus Christ, Moses, Abraham, or Zarathushtra, were well known as most learned men. But whatever they learned, they learned from the love principle; what they knew was compassion, forgiveness, sympathy, and tolerance, the attitude of appreciation, the opening of the heart to humanity. What they taught was love, a simple truth. If religions seem complex they have been added to. In every case what was brought by the prophet was simple, and it was expressed in his personality and his life; and it is that influence which has remained for centuries after they have passed away. It is not the literature they have left; most of the literature is from their pupils. It is the simple truth shown in their personalities, in their lives. The error of this day and age is that we cannot understand the simple truth, the truth as it is manifested everywhere. Instead we are trying to find truth covered by a shell.