(Aug. 1956) Dante Leo Cardella had come to see Baba at the hotel several times. Every Wednesday, a group of spiritual seekers met at Dante’s apartment, and he was anxious that Baba address the group. At 7 P.M., Baba was driven to the apartment at 1401 North Detroit Street, Apartment #1, where about fifty people were waiting in hushed expectancy for him. Dante welcomed Baba:
Cardella read excerpts from Baba’s message “Love and God Love.” The group usually meditated together for a few minutes, and this week, because Baba was present, Cardella urged the group to focus on him. “To receive Baba’s greatest blessing,” he said, “is to give him loving devotion and attention, because these are the things which he can directly work with and help in your life … The greatest miracle of all is the miracle of the awakened heart. And this, Baba can truly help us with.”
After a few minutes of silent meditation, Baba instructed the group to meditate on his name every Wednesday at midnight. Through Eruch, he stated to the group:
We are pleased to meet you – Dante loves Baba. He told you all about Baba today. Baba loves him, but the important thing is one should see me in everyone. If you can, do that which Baba has given out now: his instructions to sit at midnight every Wednesday, every week, for fifteen minutes in complete darkness, beginning your meditation from twelve midnight, with open eyes and repeating “Ba-Ba” with every breath inhaled and exhaled, and not paying attention to any experiences that you get when you are meditating. If you see Baba, focus your attention on that and continue your repetitions. You will see Baba in everybody.
I am in everyone, in everything. I am not only as you see me in flesh and blood. I am the Ocean. Those who dare to drown themselves in this Ocean can be pulled out of the ocean of Maya.
The message “Have Hope” was read out to those gathered, and Baba continued:
There are volumes describing God, telling something about reality, truth, love. Baba has given us a book, God Speaks. Baba has also given us many, many messages, but they do not help because they do not help to feel the experience which is beyond the domain of the mind. They give us an idea, a sort of an intellectual conviction, that we have to cross the mind, the domain of the mind, and experience seeing God in everything. When one sees God, he sees things as clearly, much more clearly, than he sees the gross things with gross eyes. And then one experiences infinite bliss. You have no idea of the experience of that bliss!
But there is one thing still further, another step, after seeing God and that is to become One with Me. This is, of course, explained in the form of my messages, so that people may understand intellectually, have some idea of God, Truth, Reality. If one wants to see God everywhere and in everything, one must love me with all heart, with all devotion.
Baba continued to explain:
We use the word “love” very loosely. Suppose a man sees a beautiful woman and he falls in love with her. His love wants to possess that woman. He becomes restless; he has no appetite, he loses his sleep. He thinks of the woman all the time. But to love me is much more than this so-called love of the world, of a man loving a woman. It is much more than that.
Only one who can dare to love me can love me as I ought to be loved. To love me really would mean one has to cut off his head, place it on his palm and offer it to me. Cutting not in the sense of chopping it off. That is very easy. “Head” means all your thoughts and desires – everything. Bringing them to me means placing them at my feet. Then you begin to love me; then you begin to find me, to see me in everyone and everything.
Baba concluded: “I am the Lord of Love. At the same time, I am the slave of my lovers.”
Lord Meher, Original Publication, Bhau Kalchuri, Vol. 14, pp. 5056 – 5057.