As the music continued, Baba remarked that his heart was particularly touched by a song sung by a girl named Parvati.
Ramjoo then read out this prepared message from Baba, titled "Self Lost Is Freedom Gained":
God manifests His presence when and where lust, greed, anger, jealousy, hatred, backbiting and selfish desires are totally absent. But, as they are the outcome of impressions [sanskaras] of past lives and must necessarily be expressed, getting rid of them is ordinarily impossible; it would be like a rock trying to lift itself.
Nevertheless, past impressions must be expressed to be rid of them. But at the same time that these past impressions are being expressed and spent, new ones are being forged because of the presence and assertion of the lower self. If one is to be free of the endless chain of impressions, past and present, this assertive lower self must be abolished.
Only when one's assertive self is removed can the impressions be automatically spent without incurring the binding of fresh sanskaras. One who has achieved this can never be bound by or held responsible anymore for his actions, good or bad, which are the expression of his past impressions of virtue, patience, lust, anger, greed, et cetera. Thus, with the cessation of new sanskaras, all past impressions naturally unwind to the finish, and one is free of all impressions.
To follow the path of the true yogas ( karma, dnyan, raj and bhakti ) is the remedy for the uprooting of this heritage of evils derived from past impressions, expressed by constant actions and sustained by the continual formation of new ones.
In karma yoga one tries to lose one's "self" in selfless service for others; in dnyan yoga one tries to lose one's self in contemplation and meditation. In raj yoga one tries to lose one's identity with the individual self and establish identity with the Universal Self by aiming, through constant mental poise and non-attachment, to be in the world and yet not of it. In bhakti yoga one tries to lose one's self in devotion to God. Even in these yogas, only when the zenith is reached can the individuality of the lower self be lost yet consciousness remain.
But the easiest and safest way to lose one's self is by completely surrendering to the Perfect Master. Then the past, present and future of the one who has surrendered are drowned in the Master, and he is no longer either bound by or responsible for any of his actions whether good or bad, expressed during his implicit obedience to the Master. Thus, complete surrenderance to the Perfect Master is, in itself, Freedom.