What happens then? To clean the slate of the mind these sanskaras should be spent in any way. If they are not spent in this birth they will have to be spent in the next birth. So they should be spent through thoughts only. If they are spent through physical actions, as we have said, new sanskaras are created. So they should only be spent mentally. When their force is spent, you are free.
So don't worry. I love you and, God willing, will see you through this ordeal because I know it. If I do not know, no amount of my telling you or your following me will do you any good. If I know, I know that which I will make you face. So don't worry. Only if you follow me 100 percent will you be free. Even great souls had to pass through all this.
Now why do these thoughts come? From where do they come? They are not borrowed, nor do they come from somewhere outside . They were deep within you. If they do not surface now, they will surge up some other time. So I repeat, don't worry, and if you follow me 100 percent you will be free.
Baba gave Krishnaji some instructions and sent him to Kashmir for a few months. Before Krishnaji departed, Baba repeated his warning to obey him absolutely.
Baba sent Kishan Singh to Rishikesh to see Swami Shivananda on 5 April 1953, instructing Hellan to drive him. A "Parliament of Religions" conference was taking place at Shivananda's ashram, chaired by Shuddhananda Bharati, the yogi who had met Baba in Andhra. Baba sent Kishan again the next day also with this message for Bharati:
Meher Baba sends his love and blessings to you.
He says that these conferences, societies and functions murder spirituality. Baba further says that he will always be with you, as he told you at Tadepalligudem.1
The yogi was anxious to meet Baba again. With Baba's permission, Kishan brought Bharati with him when he returned to Dehra Dun on the 6th. Baba conferred with him for a few minutes. The yogi admitted that the conference had been a "farce."
In response, Baba observed, "Conferences cannot unite mankind; the awakening of the heart alone can achieve it. I belong to no religion; all religions belong to me. Words have failed; I am the Silent Awakener."
Footnotes
- 1.Kishan had printed Baba's message, "All such conferences and congregations in the name of religion and spirituality only murder spirituality," on small pieces of paper and handed them to each of the delegates as they entered the conference hall.