To a highly educated group of his lovers, Baba stated:
It is better to deny God than to make a show of devotion. You may be extraordinarily clever, but in the eyes of God your intelligence has no value if you indulge in hypocrisy. On the other hand, if you are the most unlearned person and if you have no trace of hypocrisy, you become the wisest in the eyes of God.
-www.lordmeher.org, p4700
June, 1960; Guruprasad