"The soul thinks that each plane is the end as each is so alluring. There is no desire to go further. Garrett says he would like to stay forever near the Taj Mahal; it is so beautiful. The first plane is like that. And unless a Master helps you, you can go no further."
After further explanation, Baba's dictation ended and he asked one of the group, "Is it clear?"
The person answered, "No. I get all confused when you talk like this!"
Baba smiled and said, "Love Baba! That is all you need to do. The fun of it all is you are already united. It is funny. But you have to go through it — you have to, everybody has to. You have to know, 'I am already one with the Infinite, I have always been infinite.' "
Malcolm asked, "How can we go beyond becoming and get to pure being?"
Baba replied, "You want to know how to realize the Self. Very cute. He asks the only thing that matters! That is not knowing, it is Realization. Unless one is imprisoned, one cannot appreciate freedom. A fish born in water lives in water. It cannot realize water. When it comes out of water it goes back into water and knows the water."
Nadine said, "Then we should bless everything, even our difficulties, shouldn't we?"
Baba said, "Bless everything, even the sweets and lemon soufflé! Everything is a blessing."
On the following morning, Friday, 5 March 1937, the film of Baba's birthday was received from Bombay, and it was shown early that day to Baba and the Western group at the Circle Cinema.
Later that day, Sayyed Saheb came to see Baba. His twelve-year-old daughter had recently died and Sayyed was feeling very depressed, not because she had died but for the suffering she had undergone. In their ignorance, the family members had taken the girl to different psychic mediums to try to exorcise "the spirit" they believed was haunting her.
Sayyed Saheb was in disagreement with the family and could not understand how a spirit could have bothered his child when he had so much contact with Baba over the years.
Consoling him, Baba explained, "She was not suffering from any spirit possession, but from tuberculosis. No spirit, however powerful, can ever touch those in my group. They run miles away from the members of my circle!"
␞On 6 March, Adi Sr. drove Baba from Nasik to Rahuri in the Pontiac On the way, they came upon a serious accident.