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He worshipped God as an emanation of Truth, Beauty and Love. But like Sufis, he always preferred to worship God as love because he knew that love was always followed by Truth and Beauty. According to Sufism, Love is the essence of the Divine. The Sufis repudiated all formalism, ritualism, and book-learning. Singing of the greatness of love above all, Gurudayaiji wrote in one of his songs :
"Love is divinity And, everlastingly, Makes the galaxies in their orbits run. Love fashions fire and makes the angels sing in unison. A mystic sword that cuts the chains, Forged by the ignorant self, and on
earth reigns. Lastly, Love is a pillar on which rests
the universe.
And the kingdom of the stars."129
Dilip Roy speaks of two of Saint Gurudayalji's idols, Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi. Appreciating their achievement, the Saint said in one of his lectures :
"Man lives truly by love. Gandhiji embodied and expressed Love of Truth manifested in action while Rabindranath embodied
and expressed Truth of Love as revealed in beauty.”130
Gurudayaiji realized that after achieving the higher plateaus of consciousness, the din of the world recedes into background and a new universe of harmony and rhythm of melodious songs is revealed to the Lovers of God. Talking of Gurudayalji's ardent aspiration, Dilip Roy notes:
‘The master desire and dominant aspiration of Saint Gurudayal's radiant personality was to be coloured in His colour—the only colour which never fades and which, acting as a magic leaven,
transforms life's grey deserts into a flowering fulfilment"!31
His ardent aspiration was fulfilled and he had rare experiences of His gracious presence. Everybody around him knew that he was a mystic. He never liked to speak of his mystical experiences which were above the understanding of human mind. He did not leave any autobiographical record of his life, too. But he spoke of three of his early experiences of the indubitable reality of the Supreme in his book Hound of the Heart (1948).
During one of such experiences, at the age of twenty seven, he, in a secluded spot, suddenly
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