Love is the fruit of life. The fruit has three components: the skin, the juicy kernel and the seed. To experience the fruit, we have first to remove the skin. The skin represents egoism, the ‘I’ feeling, the excluding, limiting, individualising principle. The seed represents ‘selfishness’, the ‘mine’ feeling, the possessive, the greedy, desireful principle. This too has to be discarded. What remains is the sweet juice, the rasa, which the Upanishads describe as Divine, the Love Supreme. Parama prema isJyoti, Amrutam,Brahma: ‘Apo jyoti raso amritam Brahma.’ Everyone has the right to partake of this nectarine prema and to share it with others. No one is excluded on the basis of race, caste, creed or place of origin. The only condition is: ‘Have the skin and the seed been removed?’. (SSS Vol. 15, p. 203)I