Baba then put this question to the group: "Who is worrying?" No hand was raised. Baba then said:
I am very pleased to see that no one is worrying. You are all bokas [tomcats; i.e., hearty]. Of course, you must think seriously and be very careful about two things: firstly, about remembering God, and secondly, about the duty I have entrusted to you. So be careful, but do not worry. As for me, I had no sleep. All the time, I was worrying mostly about the programs of the 7th, 8th, 9th and 14th of November.
Yet these days I feel mostly happy. I do not know why. There was a certain period at Sakori [1921–22] when I felt very happy. In the New Life, at the Hyderabad meeting [1951], I experienced happiness, although it was of a different type. Perpetual Divine Bliss and God's Bliss are different. When I went to Bombay some days after my contact with Babajan [1915], I was experiencing the state of infinite suffering. It was individual suffering. I used to lie on a bench for twelve to fourteen hours. During those days, I had no sleep at all. I felt as if some electric motor was set working within me for 24 hours, and the impressions of all the world were operating in me. It was the most miserable and the most happy state. It was all an individual experience, individual happiness and individual suffering. Divine Bliss and God's Bliss are different. Nowadays, the happiness that I derive is personal and individual.
Baba was in a cheerful mood. Some incidents of his New Life were related. Afterwards, he told the japwalas:
I have bowed down to God through you, so you must do it [the japa and reading] on my behalf with all your heart. And because you love me, you must help me 100 percent. Do not worry about anything; have no mental strain. You have nothing to do with this work or its result. You are not doing this for yourselves. But, as I want to do it through you, try your best so that I feel, and God sees, that I have worshiped Him with all my heart.
Baba then asked Padri to bring the chart in which the Ten States of God were illustrated.1 Baba explained:
In this chart, the Tenth State is named as the Beyond, Beyond State, and the Ninth State is named as the Beyond State of God.
Footnotes
- 1.The Ten States of God are described in God Speaks, pp. 168–201.