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Chapter 23: Fiery Free Life

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It was during the stay at Rath that Meher Baba again mentioned his humiliation, a theme he was often to repeat: "There is a need for my uninvited and 100 percent humiliation before the spontaneous 100 percent manifestation of the glory of God, for those who have died for God and those who live for Him."
He added: "It is quite possible that there may be at least one percent foretaste of this very necessary humiliation at Delhi."
Baba also foretold: "You will not find me in such a happy mood in Delhi. However, during my stay in the capital I will contact one intellectual giant."
No one knew, at that time, to whom he was referring.
Babu Ramprasad had lovingly arranged things for Baba and his mandali in Nauranga. But there was also a hostile group there who opposed Baba. These persons went as far as to burst a canal dike. Water flooded everywhere and Baba could not enter Nauranga proper. He was forced to give darshan outside the village. But the surprising thing was that during Baba's Fiery Life the opposition shortly thereafter turned to ashes, and the place where this disturbance had taken place eventually became a perennial memorial to Meher Baba, named Meher Dham .
The following message was read out during one darshan program in Nauranga. It was titled "God As Truth."
Ultimately, everyone and everything is God, and that God, as Truth, can be realized through the guru or the Master. Generally in this country [India], Vedanta is associated with this rendering of the Most High. Now, I am not concerned with Vedanta or Sufism or any other "ism," but only with God as Truth, as He comes in our experience after the disappearance of the limited and limiting ego-mind.
God is an unshakable and eternal Truth. He reveals Himself [to] and communicates with those who love Him, seek Him and surrender themselves to Him, either in His Impersonal aspect which is beyond name, form and time, or in His Personal aspect. He is more easily accessible to the ordinary man through the God-Men who have always come and will always come to impart Light and Truth to struggling humanity, which is mostly groping in darkness.
Because of his complete Union with God, the God-Man eternally enjoys the "I Am God" state, which equally corresponds to the Vedantic Aham Brahmasmi , and the Sufi Anal-Haq , or Christ's declaration, "I and my Father are One."
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