I am only a messenger of God. My mission is to bring about an awareness in people about the existence of God. I help people think and sing His divine names.

As for saints claiming that they are God, all these Self-realized saints have in them the qualities of God such as compassion, purity, love and the like.

How a devotee looks upon the Guru is his/ her personal perception. A devotee may see his ishta daiva (one favourite God) in his Guru. He may look up to his Guru as his father, mother, friend. It is the devotee’s choice. The reference to saints calling themselves God may have had its origin in this, and no more.

(Bhaktimala Jan 1977)