I tell you today that what you see and what you hear is all a dream. But you will never believe it, because whatever you experience you think is real. When your eyes are opened, you will spontaneously know and experience that what you took as real was in fact a dream.
Don't worry; all this is illusion. You should love me and be honest and faithful. You must be so honest in your love that even God should bow down to you for it. God thirsts for honest love. There must not be the slightest tinge of hypocrisy. Ages have made the mind so dirty that it is quite hard for it to be pure and honest. It is the mind's nature to doubt, to reason, to be happy, to be sick, to be sore and so forth. Had it not been its nature, there would have been no need for births after births. Imagination has created all this, and the world is so ensnared in it, it is as if bogged down in mire. And extrication from the morass becomes impossible. There is only one remedy for it: honest love for God and help from a Master.
Narrating a story about the saint Sabir Saheb's love and faith, Baba stated:
In Iran lived a wali named Sabir. He was so steadfast in his love for and faith in God that he would say, "Whatever Allah does is for the best." He was a very rich man and had seven sons. He had a flourishing business and was the envy of others. Since he had a beautiful wife, seven sons and riches, naturally people said there was no reason for him not to say what God did was for the best. Then it happened that he incurred a heavy loss in his business. He lost everything; still, he would repeat that whatever God did was for the best. Yet people would begrudge him, saying why shouldn't he repeat such a thing even under adverse circumstances, since he had seven sons to earn an income to maintain the family?
Some time later, his sons died, but he stuck to his love and faith, repeating the same statement. Then people began saying why should he not say so, since the loss of his riches and all of his sons had absolved him of his responsibilities? Sabir was then attacked by leprosy and made to leave the town. Despite all this, he went on saying that whatever God did was for the best. The eyes of the townsfolk were then opened, and they found that in both suitable and unsuitable conditions, he was firm as a rock in his faith. They began calling him Sabir [the Patient One, the Enduring] and loving him much.