Baba then asked, "If someone asked you who is Meher Baba, what would you say?"
Nadine answered, "God!"
Norina said, "The God-Man!"
Baba concurred, "Not God, but God-Man. God-Man is more than God! God is absolute. One who manifests the absolute is the God-Man.
"The person who is one with God is Man-God; it is wrong to say just God. Jivatma = man; mahatma = pilgrim on the Path; Paramatma = God. When Jivatma becomes one with Paramatma, it is called Shivatma. Paramatma cannot be called Shivatma."
In the early morning of Monday, 27 January 1941, Baba rode to Alwar village in Elizabeth's car to contact masts, and returned at 1:20 in the afternoon. Later that day, he explained to the women:
Today, my work was done in five minutes. A very well-known mast lives in the house of a merchant. He is about 45 years old and is called Yasin.1
There are two types of mad — first, the worldly who go mad for money and women, or because of some loss or shock, and so forth. The other, the God-mad, whose minds become paralyzed on the Path; they are like yogis, but those who get confused and go mad.
"Mast" means intoxicated. Masts are intoxicated with divine love. The expression "drunk with wine," used by poets, means that [divine] intoxication. Masts are [generally] on the third and fifth planes, and sometimes on the fourth; but never on the first or second planes. The wali is of the fifth plane, but he is not a mast. Majzoobs, too, can be on the fifth plane.
A mast on the fifth plane is drunk with love of God. He sees neither the world nor himself, but only longs for union with God. A wali on the fifth plane sees the plane and himself, but is not attached to the plane, and longs for union with God.
A majzoob of the sixth plane is one with that plane; a majzoob of the seventh plane is one with God. If he "comes down," he is Qutub, Sadguru, the Perfect Master, the Man-God.
One on the sixth plane is called a pir. He sees himself everywhere, fully conscious, and longs for union with God.
Footnotes
- 1.Yasin is an Arabic name for Prophet Muhammad.