(N0v. 03, 1962) My dear workers: In spite of telling you very often that I will not give you any more messages or discourses, I find myself doing just this thing which is what I do not want to do. This is because most of you do things which I do not like you doing.
I had to give you a message yesterday because you expected one, and the theme of the message was on your being my children, because despite much talk about a Baba family, there is more a semblance than a reality of kinship among you who are the children of one Father. True children of one Father do not greet one another with smiles and embraces and, at the same time, harbor grudges and ill-feeling; but they have an active concern in their hearts for the well-being of one another and make sacrifices for that well-being. If you make me your Real Father, all differences and contentions between you and others
and all personal problems in connection with your lives will become dissolved in the Ocean of my Love.
You are all keen on spreading my message of Love and Truth, and many of you in the East and West have labored hard in this work, publishing magazines and other literature, organizing meetings, sacrificing your vacations by travelling, building halls and having statues made of me. But I wonder how much of my love and truth has been in your work of spreading my message of Love and Truth? Unless there is a brotherly feeling in your hearts, all the words that you speak and print in my name are hollow; all the miles that you travel in my cause are zero; all organizations for my work but an appearance of activity; all buildings to contain me are empty places and all statues that you make to embody me are of someone else.
I have been patient and indulgent over the way you have been doing these things, because you have been very young children in my love, and children must have some sort of games to play. But now you are older and beginning to realize that there is a greater work ahead of you than what you have been doing. And you have been searching your minds and hearts as to what this work might be.
It is not a different work to what you have been already doing. It is the same work done in a different way. And that way is the way of effacement, which means the more you work for me, the less important you feel in yourself. You must always remember that I alone do my work. Although only the one who has become One with God can serve and work for all, I allow you to work for me so that you have the opportunity to use your talents and capacities selflessly and to draw closer to me. You should never think that in your work for me you are benefiting others, for by being instrumental in bringing others to me, you are benefiting yourself.
My work is your opportunity. But when you allow yourself to intervene between you and my work, you are allowing the work to take you away from me. When you put my work before yourself, the work will go right, although not necessarily smoothly. And when the work does not go right, it means you have put yourself between it and its accomplishment.
The way of my work is the way of effacement which is the way of strength, not of weakness; and through it you become mature in my love. At this stage, you cannot know what real love is, but through working for me as you should work for me, you will arrive at that ripeness where, in a moment, I can give you That which you have been seeking for millions of years.
Lord Meher, Original Publication, Bhau Kalchuri, Vol. 18 pp. 6018 – 6019.