While coming up, Vishnu Sharma fell and badly hurt his leg. Pendu attended him and, after applying some medicine to the leg, bandaged it.
A large-scale darshan took place in Nauranga that day. The whole village came to the Wineshop to quaff their share, as did villagers from surrounding areas. Wherever darshan took place in Hamirpur, thousands upon thousands would assemble, and it seemed as if a sea of humanity stretching for miles in all directions had congregated. This was no mere prasad distribution of fruit and sweets. These occasions awakened people to the Divine Master, who absorbed their dirt in his Infinite Ocean of Mercy. Such darshan programs always make the Avatar or Perfect Master take upon himself the sanskaras of one and all. By giving his darshan to the masses, Meher Baba was taking on their burden of lifetimes of suffering. Who can grasp the significance or compassion of it?
Pseudo-saints and yogis also give darshan to the public. They too distribute prasad, give their blessing and act outwardly like a God-realized Master. But they cannot pour Wine! They cannot transfer upon themselves the burden of others' sanskaras, nor can they ever make anyone merge into the Ocean. For Meher Baba, darshan signified the excruciating work of taking upon himself the load of good and bad impressions of each and every one who approached him. People became overjoyed at those times, and Baba shared in their joy by his gift of taking their burden upon himself — though it made him suffer infinitely. The Avatar always bears the Universal burden, which is his alone, his special responsibility. For this reason, those who surrender to the Avatar, with their heads always bowed at his feet, are truly blessed.
Thousands had Baba's darshan that day. And for the first time, it was the men, instead of the women, who performed Baba's arti in chorus. At 2:40 P.M., Baba spontaneously dictated this message on his alphabet board, which Eruch read out to the crowd:
“”Although I appear to be silent, I speak through you all. I am ever silent and everlastingly speaking, but the time has arrived when soon I will break this apparent silence and then those who love me will see my Real Self.
So the prasad of love that I will give, take it with love, eat it with love, and the seed of love will then be in it.
