All replied spontaneously. Jehangir Wankadia said, "Everywhere."
Nilu pointed to his chest and said, "In the heart!"
Vishnu said, "In the soul!"
One expressed his inability to give the proper answer, saying, "It is the eternal question."
Finally, Baba asked Don, who pointed to Baba sitting on the bed, "In Baba! Baba is God."
For a moment all were taken aback. Don's answer was so simple, so natural. Baba then spelled out, explaining:
If you take me as your Master and believe me Perfect and one with the Infinite, if you believe this in all faith, then Don's is the only correct and logical answer.
God is where you are not! By you is meant your false I, your illusory life as Kaka, Adi, Eruch, Baidul. Where you are, God is not! To think yourself separate from God is all imagination. Your false ego makes you think you are such-and-such and leads you to believe that God can never reside within you! When your false ego disappears and your I goes, God comes!
Referring to the group's various answers, Baba further explained:
To say God is everywhere is a generality and nothing new. Pundits and priests the world over say that, and Vedanta is full of this explanation. To merely say it is of no use. You must seek God, find God, feel God and experience God [everywhere].
To say that God is in the heart, is again only part of the truth. If God is everywhere, as you all know and say, then why should you confine Him within the limits of your cardiovascular system? Why can't He be in your head, your finger, your toe? Why should you try to see Him in one particular part and not in another?
It is a common mistake and characteristic human weakness to raise the eyes to the skies and try to view the Highest and most Beloved and revered up above, somewhere in the heavens. Or, when sought in the body, to find Him only in the parts men like best: that is, in the heart or the eye, as if He did not exist equally elsewhere in other parts — in the back or bones, in the nails or flesh. Is God in the rose and not in the thorn? Or in flowers and not in filth?
This weakness of seeing God in things you like and shuddering at the idea of His existence in things you don't like or abhor must be overcome.