And the different yogas — bhakti yoga, dnyan yoga, karma yoga and raja yoga — have their endings in nirvikalpa samadhi.
All these ends mean becoming one with God, and living the life of God — in short, deification.
But, as I say, the time is such that these rivers have gone dry and so the Ocean itself has to go out and flood these rivers. So it is now time for me to reorient these different isms which end in one God.
I intend to make one unique charter regarding this reoriented Sufism and send it to Ivy Duce from India in November, with my signature, and entrust the American Sufism work to her. This charter will have an entirely new aspect but not lose its originality.
In the same way I intend to reorient the different isms and entrust the work to responsible workers and worthy persons. Now when I send the charter and constitution, and the instructions, it will be applicable to the whole Sufi world — and will, by God's grace, be lasting in its effect and influence.
I give you all my love, including all of those who could not be present here.
During Baba's visit to New York, many of the Sufis came in his close contact, including Joseph Harb and Annarosa Karrasch, 47, (who had met Baba in Myrtle Beach, along with her family.
In addition, Baba also gave his touch to others, such as Jean Adriel (who, because she had been ill, had not been able to come to Myrtle Beach), Barbara Mahon, Beryl Williams, Harold and Virginia Rudd, Laura Delavigne and Evelyn Blackshaw.1 Dr. Audrey Kargere, a psychologist who first heard of Baba through Norina in the late 1940s in New York, came with her fiancé, Prince Robert Von Brancovan.
One 90-year-old woman who met Baba in New York was Mildred Kyle. She first heard of Baba through her good friend Nadine Tolstoy, who had shown Mildred's picture to Baba one day in India.
Baba took it and spelled on the board, "A great soul," and then placed the picture in his pocket.
Mildred, or Mother Kyle as she was known, had been waiting for Baba to come to the West Coast. But after Ivy informed her of the accident, afraid she would not live long enough to get a second chance to meet Baba, Mildred flew to New York with a friend.
Footnotes
- 1.Jean Adriel was never to meet Baba again and gradually broke off contact with him and his followers. In 1955 she met and began following the saint Kirpal Singh. In a letter to Baba at that time, she said she felt, since Baba had withdrawn himself from all promises, he would not be giving her the God-realization she wanted in this life. At one point, Evelyn Blackshaw told Baba that some people were saying that Jean was Judas. Baba said no. "Not Judas, a jewel. A jewel in my crown." (Baba lovers in Los Angeles reestablished contact with Jean Adriel prior to her death in 1984.) Malcolm Schloss, her former husband, remained a faithful disciple of Meher Baba to his death.