Although different men and women definitely disliked one another, each in the group promised to try to live Baba’s words. Thereupon, Baba continued:
If I find disharmony and find you not prepared to die, then it is better that you all pack up and go. You have not come here for name and fame. I have so many disciples from the West. I do not need anybody. I am always alone and always will be until eternity. It is you who need me until you become me. But if you do not try, what is the use?
Therefore, all should begin to try now, or seriously I will tell you all to leave. Be honest in your trying. There must be harmony, love and peace. Real harmony, love and peace – not forced. Unless you are what I want you to be, I cannot give you what I want to.
Do not keep the doors closed (pointing to the heart). Keep them open so that when I want, I can enter. Every time I intend entering, I find the doors closed, all because of useless wants!
Begin dying by loving. Promise me. If you cannot love one another, how could you love those who torture you? Look how Jesus loved! He saw himself in all. See Baba within. If I say, “No!” do you get angry? When Norina says no, think it is Baba who says no. It is all want, pride, ego-satisfaction – all wants.
Someone asked, “How can we differentiate between needs and wants? Some claim, ‘I need all I want.’ What is the difference?”
Baba spelled out in reply:
If you are dying of thirst in the desert, you need water – not lemonade. If you ask for water, it is your need. If you ask for barley water, it is a want. Is it clear? But if you can get good water, it is not necessary to drink muddy water to kill your desire for drinking. Drink good water. Neither lemonade nor muddy water, but pure, simple water.
Lord Meher, Original ed., Bhau Kalchuri, Vol. 6, pp. 2152 – 2153.