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Chapter 24: Dehra Dun, 1953

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It is not miracles but understanding which can bring you true freedom. If you have firm faith and unfaltering love for the God-Man, your way to the Abiding Truth is clear and safe. Then you have no time to waste in playing with things that do not matter. Be guided by Love and Truth! This is the simple way that leads to God. Not by endless maneuvering of alluring illusions but by loyalty to the Unchangeable Truth can you hope to be established in Abiding Peace.
When I speak, it will be only One Divine Word, but it will be the Word of words, or the Manifestation of Truth. This Word will have to be hearkened to by the heart, and not merely by the mind. It will go home to you and bring you the Awakening. My love and blessings.
Baba had not called Was Deo Kain, his wife Prabha and others from Delhi (such as Dhar, Ganjoo, Harjiwan Lal, his daughter Anguri, and son Sugandh).
That morning, when he met those from Delhi, he chided them, "Why did you come without my invitation? This is a lesson to me not to give darshan, as you people are always on my chest!"
Kain pleaded, "When will you come to Delhi, Baba, as you promised to come before the end of the year?"
"Had you people not come here, I would surely have come. And besides, if you take me to be what I am, I am already there!"
The retired police officer, Sardar V. Singh, had come to see Baba a few days before. During the darshan function, he remained fully occupied in looking after arrangements from morning until evening. Baba would frequently call him during the day on one pretext or another.
"Have you had your food?" he would ask. "Did you drink tea?"
Baba felt happy with him and would direct the mandali to call "the new Daulat Singh," since his deep love reminded Baba of another Sardarji, Dr. Daulat Singh. Sardar V. Singh's whole family became devoted to Baba and would often come to him.
Many people said that they felt that they had met Meher Baba before.
When asked, Baba replied: "Many in the multitude have previous connection with me from their past lives. All are drops in the same ocean and can never leave the ocean. Most of the visitors have already met me in their past lives and have been meeting me for ages. They are old friends in new guises."
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