"From where did you acquire this knowledge? Before a question enters my mind, you know it!"
"All this I can understand quite easily."
"You did not answer my last question. How do you understand and know all this?"
Baba smiled.
"Because I am one with Eternal Existence."
"What is your mission?" Douglas asked.
"To bring about a spiritual regeneration of mankind — of all, the East and the West," Baba spelled out.
"Have you the confidence to do that, especially in the West?"
"With as much confidence as that which you possess in thinking you are now talking to me and believing that you are doing so! In truth, with this objective [the spiritual regeneration of mankind] I have taken this birth. This is the purpose of my taking human form."
"Who has appointed you to be the benefactor of mankind? Who has sent you?"
"I know it and it is my life."
Douglas was confused and found Baba's words incredible. Baba soothed him by lovingly stroking his back. Then he took the man's hand in his own and their eyes met. Both were quiet for a moment. Looking at him, Baba smiled, then Douglas exclaimed:
"Are you always like this — in bliss?"
"I enjoy eternal bliss. It is my constant life and existence."
"Why do I not enjoy that bliss?"
"Because in this illusion, you are not free of your ego and so cannot enjoy such bliss. For this reason, due to ignorance, the world is miserable. In truth, nothing exists on all four sides except bliss."
"Who is God? What is He? Is He a person or a power?"
"God is both in form and without form. He resides in every being and pervades every thing. In every aspect of life — in art, in literature, in beauty — He is!"
Hearing this, Douglas was about to ask Baba something, but Baba prevented him, indicating that he should first listen to what Baba wanted to say.
Continuing, Baba spelled out, "From all this, you should not take it that I am a pantheist. This is not my opinion. In reality, I know everything through experience. You will understand all this when you know God. The highest experience is to know Oneself. It is the supreme experience. It means to be one with God!"