Belief, trust and faith are all illusory phenomena if not based on conviction through personal experience. Ignorant souls seek faults and weaknesses in others without first finding their own defects, and for some it is a lifelong job to ridicule Knowledge when unattainable.
The apparent is not real. Under many a life's complicated problems are hidden some of the simplest truths which the veil of ignorance obscures from human vision.
So don't trouble to believe in ignorance, and do not also bother about believing in me. Be prepared to believe in your Self, of being able to long for Truth. Then will you know Truth in its pure, infinite simplicity.
Afterward, one woman came up to Norina and pleaded with her for an interview with Baba, which he granted the same day. The woman, Isabella Paul of Transvaal, South Africa, was the wife of a gold mine supervisor. She was on her way from England, determined to find God in Tibet. For years she had longed to come to India and was headed for the Himalayas. Upon hearing Norina speak Meher Baba's name, Isabella instinctively knew she had found what she had been looking for all those years. She was the one to whom Baba was referring when he had boarded the ship.
Baba told her, "Not in Tibet, but in yourself will you find God."
Isabella saw Baba almost daily for the rest of the voyage, and remarked, "He has told me so much in a practical way that will last for the rest of my life. In meeting one like Baba, all questing ceases."
Baba also met a few of the other passengers on board who expressed their desire to meet him.
After leaving Marseilles, Baba had begun giving baths to Mohammed in his cabin's bathroom. This was no simple or easy task. It would take hours to bathe the mast. It usually took one hour just to take off his sandals: Every time Baba would try, Mohammed would kick his feet. Protesting the entire time, Mohammed would allow his sandals to be taken off only very, very hesitatingly. Likewise, while undressing him and again putting his clothes back on after the bath, and again making him put on his sandals — it was a battle all the way!