Expansion is the essence of Love. Love is God. Live in Love. That is the Deepavali message I give you. When a lamp is lit from another, there are two where there was but one. The first one did not stop emitting light. You can light a million lamps from one, yet the first will not suffer a jot! Love too is like this. Share it with a million, it will still be as bright as when it was alone. There is another lesson too which the illuminations on Deepavali tend to teach. Each house in the street lights a few lamps and keeps them on the door sill, the parapet wall, the gate, the porch, the well, and what is the effect? The town is filled with light, the residents are happy, the children dance in glee, and the sky shines in the glow of earthly joy. Light spreads; it mingles with the light from other sources of light; it has no boundaries, no prejudices, no favourites. You may not like your neighbour. But the light from the lamp on your verandah shines hand in hand with the light from the lamp on his verandah! You cannot keep it back! Deepavali is intended to teach you this lesson of light and love; move out, clasp, spread, expand, give up limits of mine and thine, his and theirs, caste, and creed, in one limitless flow of Love. That is the culmination of all spiritual sadhana.