About his interview, he related:
Although I sat face to face with him, I knew, because of the veil, I did not have even a glimpse of him as he really is. I felt irresistibly drawn to him, as an iron filing is drawn to a magnet. To see, know or feel Baba is the end of all human questing. In him, there can be nothing more to be desired, neither is there anything which is outside of him ...
Once he called me to him privately. He didn't ask me a question.
He said, "I am the Ancient One. Once again I am drawing my
fishermen to me. You are very dear to me."
Joyce Bird, 42, had been waiting to meet Baba for ten years. She came with her husband and remembered, "Baba's eyes ... were dark pools of love. Quite unfathomable, but quite real. His expression was infinitely kind, but as I recollect now, rather sad. I think he was suffering intensely with his leg, it being just after the accident in America."1
Delia's sister Minta came to see Baba after many years. She had been his lively "Shalimar," but she noticed that Baba was not as attentive to her as he once had been.
She mentioned this to him in mock-complaint, and he spelled on the board, "It was you who left me, not I who left you."
To another person meeting Baba for the first time, he stated:
You have had my love for years — I know, that is why I tell you this and I give you my love. The best way to help is to follow your conscience, and what I am happy about is to see your love for me. Your love is precious to me.
To a group Baba stated:
I really am happy to see you today. Let me tell you this fact: There is nothing to worry about, nothing to be disheartened about. We are all, each of us, meant to be happy. God, who is within us all, is to be experienced as infinite happiness, and it can be done only through love for Him.
To find the Truth, one not only has to depend upon analysis and intellect, but on the heart. Intellectual understanding is not as important as experience through the heart. God is the only Reality, and He cannot be analyzed. Reason cannot reach Him. When one, through love, finds Him, one finds Him in everyone.
We must seek God in everyday life. Look for God; God loves those who seek Him, and when we seek Him with all our heart, we find Him in ourselves. The goal of life is to know God, the Infinite One, in everyday life. Baba gives you his love, that love which will eventually help you to find God.
Footnotes
- 1.Joyce Bird, A Search for the Truth, p. 4.