LONG FOR UNION AND BE PATIENT

In Nasik on April 23rd, (1937) Baba gave an explanation about the seven spiritual planes and also stated:

I am in Sahaj Samadhi every second. This state means: “I am everywhere; I am in everything; I am in everyone.” That is why to know me you have to realize the Self. You see me ordinarily in the physical body – but I am in samadhi. When you see through, deep down into yourself, there you will see me as the Infinite One. Then you see me in everyone and everything. It is all Baba. God only IS. Samadhi is a bluff. God is real, and everyone and all else is God too.

You cannot limit God by saying, “God is this or that.” God is just God. Illusion is God. God is not one or two, but just God. Nothing, everything, are so merged in each other that you cannot say, “This is nothing,” or “This is everything.” Nothing, too, exists – but it is illusion.

What is it? It is God. Is it clear? God is God. When you realize me you know, and this knowing is permanent. The only sign of God-Realization is that when one becomes united with God, one knows everything – everything as God. One can do anything. One does not know everything by the mind. One just knows. You are God now, but you do not know it. I am God. I know it.

Someone asked if each one has to go through all the seven planes. In reply, Baba spelled out:

A Perfect Master does not make you go through each plane. He takes you past them all, and the fun is you do not go. You just stay where you are; just as now you get up, go out and walk about. You think you go, but you are everywhere. Your mind takes this body. You are everywhere.

Therefore, long for union with God. Do not bother about planes or samadhi’s powers. Long for union and be patient.

Once a Master told a disciple that to attain to the highest, “You have to be bound hand and foot on a plank of wood and then be thrown into a river without getting your garments wet!” This poor man could not understand.

He wandered around and around until he came to another saint and asked the meaning of this. The saint said, “It means you have to long for union intensely, as if you could not live another moment without it, and yet have the patience of billions of years!”

So I say: Long for union and be patient. The longing is a gift of God, so also the grace. You do as I say. Have that longing, then I will help you in it because it is all me. I give from here [pointing to his heart] and I receive from there [pointing to their hearts]. Remember love in its highest aspect is God.

Lord Meher, Original ed., Bhau Kalchuri, Vol. 6, pp. 2166 – 2167.