So these explanations [of mine] about the war are a sort of communication, to give the public a chance to listen and improve. If they won't, then there will be spiritual bombs!
Don't you know me, after so many years of contact? One who does not care for the world and publicly declares in America, "I will come here and speak," and does not — don't you understand him yet?
I don't care what the world will think or say. I will do anything for the [sake of my] work. Even if the whole world goes against me, I will do what I have to do. But all in its time. I will teach and strike, both!
But India nowadays is sadly lacking in spirituality, by indulging in too much politics and maya. The old spiritual glory is gone. It is sad, yet, it is a fact.
On Sunday evening, 24 December 1939, a lawyer from a rural area, a simple and plain-spoken man, met Baba and quite frankly told Baba in a quiet voice, "I have heard many people talk about love, but I don't know what love really is."
Baba asked, "Are you married?"
"Yes."
"Do you have any children?"
"Do you love them?"
"Yes, in the ordinary way. But I cannot say that is real love. My object is to have real love, not this worldly affection and attachment. I visited saints, in the hope of experiencing love, but so far have not succeeded in any way."
Baba praised the man's longing for true and divine love, and explained:
You must first understand what real love means. Selfish motives, even in what people call love, often deceive them, and they mistake selfish feelings for love.
I will make the point clear with an example. A person talking of love will say, "I love my Beloved. I want my Beloved to be with me," and so on. In all these expressions of love, the I and "my" are predominant.
Another example: Suppose you find your child running about in tattered clothes and feel unhappy about it. It will pain you, and you will readily feel for him. You will do all in your power to see that he has good clothes and to make the child happy.
On the other hand, if you see someone else's child in the street in a similar state, would you feel the same and act as readily as you did in the case of your own child?