What is God? God is love. When His mercy, His compassion, and His kindness are expressed through a God-realized personality, then the stains of one's faults, mistakes, and wrongdoings are washed away, and the soul becomes as clear as it has always been. For in reality no sin nor virtue can be engraved or impressed upon a soul; it can cover the soul. The soul in itself is divine intelligence, and how can divine intelligence be engraved either with sin or virtue, or happiness or unhappiness; when these clouds are cleared from it, then it is divine in its essence.