Joy is the aim of all beings and creatures on this earth. Of these a human being alone can know the secret source from which joy of all kinds emanate. In fact, even the delight experienced through the senses has its root in this hidden source which we call God, who dwells within us. God is absolute joy and from Him have projected all the principles of manifestation. Just as to know the seed is to know the tree, so also to know the root cause of the world-manifestation which is God, is to know the nature of the manifestation. We can therefore infer that the universe, being the expression of God, is made up of waves of joy.

In a human being, every part of him, subtle or gross, is a concrete expression of eternal joy – even the momentary pleasures and pains are ripples on the ocean of infinite joy. So, everywhere there is nothing but the forms of joy, because everything is God who is joy.

"When the devotee has realized the full splendour of God and is surcharged with ecstasy, and has merged in Him, he cannot contain himself. He dances, being seized with a rare rapture, his entire body thrilling with bliss. The very name and thought of God sets him ablaze, as it were, with this exalted experience. In this state, the line of demarcation that divides the devotee and his God disappears and God reveals Himself as the devotee.

Where this supreme joy is at play, there, love rises in floods. Here all diversity and distinctions dissolve into the supreme Spirit, who is the sole Truth and then whom there is none other.

The experience of the devotee in this attainment does not admit of description, as language is utterly incapable of doing so. He who enjoys it alone knows what it is.

India has presented to the world a galaxy of saints who have reached the heights of such Divine ecstasy mentioned above. All of them are the veritable embodiments of devotion of the highest type. They have poured out the joy of their souls even in their songs and teachings. Love is their theme and joy their strain. He who has drunk the nectar, which they yield, has sweetened his life for ever and ever.