This is very subtle. What happens is you save me from starvation, and if you feel you have done a good turn, your ego is fed, and I automatically get the mental impression of being helped, which I must repay to you in some way or the other. [Consequently], sanskaras or impressions are added to you.
Karma yoga of selfless service demands two things which are very difficult to do. Help others, serve others, but in a way in which you are, not even for a moment, conscious of having helped or served them. This is possible only if you forget yourself 100 percent and become lost in the service. That is why Masters say the only way to help human beings is not just tending to their physical needs, but to give them spiritual upliftment, making them know that the purpose of life is knowing God in perfect honesty, not by hearsay or hearing.
So you feel the need to do something for the needy, for others. Help others; that is very good indeed. But unless you know how to do it, there is always a chance of getting into a mess.
Baba then spoke about his future plans:
Now here I have a plan. From June 15 to July 15, when I am free from other work and not seeing people, I will do two things: the book [ God Speaks ] on The Ten States of God , and plan out the Center here, which represents four aspects of the path to God.
Four centers in this very Center: 1) of Sufism; 2) of complete renunciation for those who want to get Light; 3) of selfless service to people in the way I chalk out; and 4) for those who live in the world and yet want detachment for meditation and other things. Four centers to be made here under my guidance where every aspirant can attain the Truth.
This needs a lot of money. I am the poorest of the poor and yet I hold God and the whole universe in the palm of my hand. Money comes to me and goes. I do not touch money, since my silence. Elizabeth has spent so much on this property and has limited funds now. But I know God will arrange everything as I want. I will make four centers: one for meditation, one for service, one for renunciation, one for knowledge under Baba's direct guidance.