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Chapter 8: Winding Down Activities

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Hearing this, all were silent in deep thought. But a clever fellow among them said, "Master, because you are connected with everything in the universe, you had these discharges. Just as you answer the call of nature, because you eat and drink like an ordinary man. Thus you also had those emissions since you have connection with your physical body's system. It is natural because you have a body in contact — in touch — with everything."
But the Master said, "It is not so. These nocturnal emissions did not happen due to any physical reason, nor because my body has connection with everything. It happened for the benefit of you, my close disciples. What doubts did this unimportant event raise in your minds? You even doubted my Mastership! Had you full faith in me, you would not have had such thoughts. True faith should be rock-like, unwavering. I wanted to test your faith, and I find you lacking in faith despite so many years of my contact."
Baba further elaborated:
The love of the Beloved is not commonplace or ordinary. His fancy or lahar [whim], his mood and actions, can create in a second doubts in the minds of his lovers. Where there is doubt, there is not love, as doubt and love cannot live together. The lover who has doubts about his Master has no love for him.
Kalyan and Arjuna were the beloveds of their Beloved Masters, Swami Ramdas and Krishna; but Jesus had none. The Avatar descends on Earth for his beloveds, his real lovers, and he works for them side by side with his working for the entire universe. But it is not necessary that all Avatars must have a beloved.
Zoroaster lived some 6,000 years ago. His Master was a Jew [Israelite]. But what the world knows about the religion that came from him is practically nothing. All these Zoroastrian rites, rituals and ceremonies have come down from the dasturs [priests] and Zoroaster's followers who began them centuries after his death. For example, those emblems of the Zoroastrian religion — the sadra and kusti — are the outcome of the preachings of the dasturs centuries after Zoroaster's advent. It has no connection with his teachings. They are nothing but "after-creations." I am telling you the absolute truth.
Zoroaster was the greatest Sufi. He was the Father of Sufism, and its very foundation owes its creation to him.
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