Now, if we look at the current world situation, never before has there been such a situation. It has become so complex today that one can't decide what to do. For example:
Korea: Fighting and peace efforts are going on simultaneously. Armistice is there, but South Korea says no. Today's [news]paper will show that the heaviest fighting is still going on.
Russia: Stalin is dead now. Beria [Soviet Minister of Internal Affairs] has been chucked out. Kruglov is now in the ministry, and all confusion for power exists there.
Egypt: The Suez quarrel is going on there now. Britain has occupied Ismailia and its forces are there.
India: Half the population is now starving.
If you go anywhere in the world, you will discover something new. All peace talks and all chaos. It is according to a certain law. Even this phenomena of illusion is based on the law of duality. So now, one thing must come to pass. Like a big balloon, if you keep blowing it up, it will either explode, or it can be deflated. As long as you keep blowing, a time will come when you must either tie the balloon or let it burst. That critical time for the world has now come. I am telling you all.
This is what I actually feel about the world. Never before have we had such times. You can hardly find anyone in the world who is happy . Even I am feeling perplexed, wondering what to do. It is a great kantala [headache, disgust] for me — an infinite kantala — as to how I should speak and be free. Others would then also be free. You are waiting for that moment, but I am infinitely more impatient for it. The time has come, and it must come to pass.
Pointing to Meherjee, Baba warned him, "Be careful of your health. You are my arm, and once my arm was broken; so now you should see that it does not break again. If my people grow slack, all my limbs — hands, feet and the whole body — will tremble!"
Footnotes
- 1.Mohammed Mossadegh was the Prime Minister of Iran, but in August 1953 he was removed from power by a coup d'état (organized by the United States CIA).