For example, A loves me extremely, meaning he thinks of nothing but me all the while, and is lost in me. So also B is extremely against me, that is, hates me, but always thinks of me and is lost in me, though with antagonistic feelings. I always use the medium of thought. It depends upon the qualities that readily respond to the push.
When I work collectively, which is generally at plays, movies and sporting events — wherever people collect and concentrate on a particular object — it is easy for me to have my spiritual effect collectively on their minds.
When I work universally, it is through agents. My mind, being Universal, is linked with every individual mind, even with advanced minds who are my agents; and so I am present and working through my agents in every part of the world. That is why at times while speaking to one person, my mind is working elsewhere. People have seen and marked me stopping suddenly in the midst of conversation, as if absent and away from the spot, engrossed in something else..
At night, I make some of my disciples sit beside me and press the soles of my feet to have their physical touch. Kaka [while on nightwatch] sometimes abruptly sits up in bed at night, having seen some signs or a flash of light which make him nervous; this is at the time of my special work with bodiless spirits. (There are scores of such spirits, but in whatever stage of advancement, they have to take human form again, because the ultimate goal of every soul is to be one with the Infinite.) This is, in short, how I work.
Only those in the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh planes, and who are conscious of me, know under and for whom they are physically working. They cannot see me physically, but their subtle and mental bodies see my subtle body, which is similar to the gross ...They also know that I am One with the Infinite.
Giving an example, Baba said, "While I am sitting here, my agents are working in India, Persia, Africa and so on. This very moment, they see my subtle body, all at the same time, in different planes, because the messages they send are sent through the mental plane where there is only the will to do a thing. Instantaneously, it reaches the desired spot.
Then people started asking questions again: "How do they become agents?"
"Mostly due to past connections with me. Those connected with me in past lives become agents. Those deeply connected with me become members of the circle — but all is Infinite One."
"What do you mean by your circle?"
Baba answered, "The circle is of my deeply connected disciples who are unconsciously one with me now and will consciously be one with me in the future when I have completed the work which I can do during the period of their apparent ignorance. It is like having a veil between us; they are one with me but, being behind the veil, do not see. Where love, lover and the Beloved are one, there the work of duality ends. So for the sake of the work, this duality and ignorance exist.
"The agents do the work for people on the gross plane, and through the circle, I work for the spiritual plane, without their (members of the circle) being aware of it. Jesus worked through his apostles on the spiritual plane without their knowing it; but later on, they knew it. They knew that all the time it was Jesus' working and they were his instruments — mediums — and all the time one with Jesus."
Another person inquired, "Are science and religion separate?"
Baba replied, "It depends upon how it is understood and utilized. If science deals only with material advancement, it would be said to have nothing to do with spirituality. But when it is expressed to make the meaning of life clear, then it is also a branch of spirituality. Just as art is spiritual if expressed rightly; if it is expressed wrongly, it is material."