There is also spiritual science, which deals with the beyond-mind state. Material science and spiritual science both yield proofs and demonstrations. Material science brings results through intellect, spiritual science through love. When love is experienced fully, the source of the spiritual science, God the Infinite, is realized and then all else is found to be just illusionary phenomena.
Spiritual science, being based on love alone and being beyond the systematic mental understanding, is full of apparent ups and downs and contradictions and vagaries, which love alone can face and overcome. This is because material science enhances the ego-life, whereas spiritual science annihilates it.
Eruch then read out the message "Internal Conviction" (dictated at 9:30 A.M. that morning):
There are two kinds of experiences — one external and one internal. The external experience can be had by gross means. What we actually see of the gross world with the gross eyes gives us a sort of conviction, but at times even this conviction is based on false analysis. Just as when we happen to see a man drinking milk in a bottle under a toddy tree, we feel convinced having seen this that he must be drinking toddy, which is false. But what is seen with the inner eye gives absolute and definite conviction which can never fail and be false.
When one actually sees God with the inner eye as the Omnipresent Existence, he then only needs to become that Infinite Existence himself. So what is actually needed is not mere theorizing and reasoning, but actual experience which would give eternal conviction, and this can be had only through love.
After these messages were read, Baba told Niranjan Singh: "The thing is, we try to understand those things through the mind which we can only understand when there is no mind! You yourself are your own veil.
"When 'you' become invisible, God becomes visible! But this requires experience, and to gain that Experience grace is necessary. It is useless to try to grasp things through the mind, which cannot be understood."
Niranjan Singh pleaded, "So long as I cannot stay with you for at least a week, my thirst will not be quenched."
Smiling, Baba replied, "I do not extinguish thirst, I increase it! To increase your thirst, when do you want to stay with me for seven days?"
"The college is closed in April."
"We will see," Baba quipped. "April bahoat dur hai [is far off]!"