If we remove kindness from the foundation, the building of religion cannot hold itself. In case the very foundation of a building is removed, how can it stay? We construct pillars. Suppose we remove them, how can the roof stay? It is impossible. Similarly, if we remove the foundation of kindness, we do not have sympathy for one another, we do not try to uplift others, we should forget that we are virtuous or we are followers of a true religion or that we are big devotees or worshippers. This has never been the sign of a man of religion, a man of virtue. Only a person having the sacred feeling of love keeps the religion glowing. It is he who glorifies the religion. A religion based on kindness, goodwill, devotion t o God can never suffer or fall in disrepute. Ups and downs can come only in a religion based on artificialities, outer symbols and controversies regarding dress and diet, etc. It is here that man clashes with man, man tortures man. Today, what is required is that man should know the very base of religion and establish communion with this God Nirankar. Once he acquires this communion, all his misapprehensions will end automatically.

A person who does not take lesson from the life and teachings of the divine masters and lives in the state of narrow mindedness, narrow vision and continues to have ego and pride, commands no faith or respect in our minds. It is often said that every day of ours should pass as Holi and the night as Diwali. What is its significance? The Holi has the name of Bhakt Prahlad connected with it. His own father was insisting that he should give up his faith in God. He made several attempts to shake him from the path of Truth, the path of spirituality. The father was proud. He wanted that people should worship him. That is why he tortured Prahlad. His sister Holika, who was proud that fire could not harm her, offered to sit in the fire with the child Prahlad in her lap. She thought that thefire would burn the boy, while she would remain safe. But it happened the other way round. Bhakt Prahlad survived, while Holika was burnt. It was the defeat of pride and a victory for the humble Bhakt Prahlad. Dewali too is celeberated to mark the end of pride in the form of Ravana. There too it is a defeat of pride. Thus we can have our days like Holi and nights like Dewali, when our pride is defeated, humiliated.