He behaves in a manner that society would view as shocking. Thousands of people daily pass by him, witnessing his disgusting habits, but say nothing. Neither do the police interfere with him. Similar actions by an ordinary sane man would be liable not only to prosecution, but severe punishment by the law. In the case of this mast, no one takes him seriously and nobody cares about him. Why? Simply because they all take him to be stark raving mad and, consequently, not responsible for his conduct.
Similarly, I take all who are not Realized as mad and pay no attention to what they do or say about me or my work, favorably or otherwise. Even in the case of the worst of scandals or the foulest of abuses, I know that they are irresponsible, instigated as they are by interested parties, whose business it is to create mischief. If you correct them and point out their mistakes, you may do so, if occasion demands, with dignity, affection and grace.
Further explaining about illusion and Reality, and the difference between an ordinary man and the God-Man, Baba stated:
In the universe, there is Reality on one side and illusion on the other. Reality is infinite; hence illusion, which is the shadow of Reality, is also infinite. This illusion, in its manifest aspects and innumerable forms — life, light, love, power, et cetera — is infinite. But these aspects or forms of illusion are so finite that they become negligible, which would otherwise be termed a zero. In short, the One in many is infinite, as also many in One. In other words, lives innumerable, problems, interests and passions in all their variegated aspects and forms are infinite.
Behind the God-Man is Infinity, because he is one with it. But at the back of an ordinary individual is mind, and the ego in its manifest aspects. The actions of both the God-Man [infinite] and man [finite] appear externally similar, because the Infinite has come down to the level of the finite. Yet, in spite of this apparent similarity, internally and in reality, there is a world of difference. At the back of my actions is Infinity, which has no bindings and hence no impressions, because I am beyond mind and ego; whereas at the back of an average man's actions are mind and ego which have bindings and create impressions.