He had decided to return to Meherabad after only two days, and they picked him up and brought him back to the ashram.
Gustadji's mother Bhikaiji arrived the same day with her son Slamson and had Baba's darshan.
Baba had expressed his opinion that the tone of The Meher Message was a bit too strident. He wished it made clear through a separate insert that the opinions expressed in the magazine were those of its editor, Dastur. But Dastur strongly objected to this. The first issues arrived a few days later on 6 January. Again, Baba told the mandali that, apart from contributing one of his discourses every issue, "I am quite aloof from The Meher Message and I have no connection with it. It is a matter between you and Dastur. I have nothing to do with it." Hearing this, Dastur became very upset and had a heated argument with Raosaheb. Baba calmed them both and afterward clarified a matter which Dastur had dealt with erroneously.
Later that night, while discussing future plans, Baba explained:
I know I will have to suffer much more than Christ; and still I say that I am God. Look at the mentality of educated people. What do they say? "Can man ever be God? It is all humbug." But I will continue to say, "Whatever I am, I am!"
During a discussion on Monday, 7 January 1929, Baba revealed:
The God you are in search of is not up in the sky. He is here — on this plane! I am That.
I am in you, so search for me within yourself. I am not in any mosque, temple or church. You may claim that this is impossible — totally impossible. All right, then tell me do your eyes see yourself? They see the world, but they do not see you. For that you have to use a mirror.
Similarly, through the mirror of love, you have to see yourself. And the person who has the mirror is the Perfect Master and no one else. Only a Perfect Master has the mirror of love.
Baily came to Meherabad on the 7th for the day with Sailor's wife Naja. Following the standard procedure, Homi Bhatena sent a note up the hill informing Baba of their arrival.1 (Visitors were only permitted up with Baba's permission.) During this period, Baba was fond of quoting a few lines of the Sufi Master Al-Hallaj to the boys and mandali.
Footnotes
- 1.Hormusji Shapurji Bhatena of Bombay had been staying with the mandali in Toka and at Meherabad.