Question: What is the cause of ignorance?
Baba: The cause of individual ignorance is the result of evolutionary impressions; and the collective ignorance is the outcome of the very first existence. All is Infinite. In self-realization, there is no finite; but as long as you are not individually free from duality, duality exists for you.
The substratum of all this is love. Love is the one and only thing. Devoid of love, everything is miserable. Love is God and everything that is real. Lust is perverted love, and so it is unreal.
Question: Is this your message to us?
Baba: Yes, for you and also for the whole world.
–Silent Teachings of Meher Baba, compiled and edited by Naosherwan Anzar, p135