During another stage of his regaining worldly consciousness, Meher Baba began experiencing the thoughts of all human beings in the universe. The individual thoughts of those persons in the gross world, irrespective of whether they were near or far, would instantaneously pour into his universal mind at the moment they were created (thought). The numerous thought waves were so forceful and so tremendously rapid, it is impossible for us to have an idea of their effect. The very process of infinite thinking was rushing through Baba's individual mind; he could withstand it only because his mind had become universal.1
For instance, a person's thoughts in America the moment they were formed, would rush into Meher Baba's universal mind. Thus, all the thought-waves of all of humanity on Earth would stream into and permeate Meher Baba's universal mind in a few minutes. At the beginning of this particular stage of Baba's coming down, when his universal mind was starting to function, he was sitting alone by a canal at Sakori. Within a few minutes, the force of the thoughts of thousands and thousands of persons on Earth entered his universal mind. The impact of it was so tremendous he became uneasy and restless, and, in an attempt to break the shock, he submerged his head underwater in the canal until his individual mind found relief.
During another stage of his coming down at Sakori, Baba had another experience which he later described:
I experienced circles and circles of lights coming out of my heart. There were countless circles within circles. All the infinite number of universes were coming out of me, each containing an infinite number of planets, moons and suns!
Baba's physical labor in the toddyshop at Kasba Peth helped him tremendously in the process of coming down. While he labored in the toddyshop, he was near the final stage of regaining worldly consciousness. During this stage, he felt the impulse to work continuously and exert himself physically. This impulse to be physically active came from Upasni Maharaj, for Upasni was directing Meher Baba's descent.
It seems that this stage of regaining normal human consciousness required the accomplishment of deeds of the purest virtue, done with the deepest humility. To attain this pure humility, Baba worked like a common laborer in the toddyshop for three years, in spite of the fact that he was actually a divine man, with full divine consciousness of infinite power, knowledge and bliss.
Footnotes
- 1.The process of "Infinite Thinking" is explained by Bhau Kalchuri in The Nothing and The Everything (Manifestation, Inc., 1981), pp. 162–167.