Also, in the life of Jesus Christ, one reads of his temptations and of how he was disturbed and persecuted at every stage of his work. Was he not in the end humiliated and crucified? Could he not have saved himself who professed to be the Savior of the whole world?
Jesus Christ, being all-knowing, he could have easily foreseen the apparent tragedy and he could have avoided the awkward situation of the trials; he being all-powerful, he could have wiped off the whole world just with the breath of his unspoken word before he was made to bear the Cross and whipped. But, on the other hand, history records the fact that, almost just nearing the end, the last words he pronounced were: "O God, why hast though forsaken me?" Jesus Christ — the Messiah — to utter such a thing seems absolutely ridiculous. But, then what made him show his utter helplessness and hopelessness? ...
Baba concluded that it suffices for him to point out this, that the intellectual mind, which could swallow and digest the setbacks, the disturbances and upsets so vividly depicted in the history of past Masters and Prophets, must necessarily either accept or reject what Baba has to say.
Addressing the mandali in Dehra Dun on Friday, 12 June 1953, Baba stated about Kumar:
"Shatrughna says he would die for me if I ask, and I believe him 100 percent. Also he says he does not love me as love is described, and that also is true. Love is a gift."
Baba further explained:
Love for one's wife or children or parents is not love. It is attachment. Love is a gift and it is divine. When one has it, one sacrifices everything. Freedom is sacrificed — sacrifice itself is sacrificed! But from my point of view, obedience is higher than love. Obedience, however, is impossible, more impossible than love because Freedom is inherited. Freedom is our birthright because originally we were free. So when binding comes, it [Freedom] is refused to us.
The easiest course adoptable in such circumstances is to resort to "one binding," which eliminates several bindings, but that too is difficult. Even though a man in obedience may cut his own throat, the idea of Freedom is in his action. He is motivated by that idea.
Baba repeated a verse from Hafiz about giving up life for the sake of the Beloved, explaining: