Similarly, the person who parades humility is like the one who smells the stink when cleaning a latrine, whereas the person who lives the life of humility is like the sweeper who is not only immune to the stink but who also remains absolutely unmindful about what others think about him and his job, because he actually lives the life of a sweeper.
To have to try to be humble is also humbug. You must be so natural that your very life becomes humility personified, which is then all strength, free from any weaknesses. Only God and the Perfect Masters can live such a life. They are the only ones who are really humble. So, whatever you may be, express it unmindful of public opinion or the reaction of others.
Be natural. If you are dishonest, do not try to hide yourself behind the curtain of honesty. That, however, does not mean that you should be dishonest. What I want to say is that you must be most natural rather than the least hypocritical.
Baba reached the darshan place at 3:30. Finding Bhaskara Raju ill, Baba embraced him before mounting the stage, making him sit beside him. Kutumba Sastri presented Baba with a copy of his poetic praise in Sanskrit, and Baba was duly welcomed. Darshan began and Baba handed prasad to nearly 7,000.
In the evening a dance and play were staged in which Dharmarao's two daughters took the lead roles. In Eluru also, they had acted for Baba, and Dharmarao's entire family came close in his love. During this journey in Andhra, Dharmarao was driving Baba's car and, as mentioned previously, Baba would often joke with him, an indication of how close to him he felt.
Dhanapathy's young granddaughter also took part in the play and, while dancing, performed Baba's arti.
Dharmarao's daughters had portrayed the love between Krishna and Radha, and in his happiness Baba remarked, "On March 2, remind me to explain about my dance. It is very original and not yet explained by me — my First Original Dance."
But subsequently, no one remembered to remind Baba about it, and it remained unexplained.
In celebration of Meher Baba's birthday, fireworks were lit at about 11:45 P.M. that night. Eight thousand people had gathered for the display. Thus, the birthday program came to a splendid conclusion at 1:00 A.M.
The next morning, Friday, 26 February 1954, at eight o'clock, Baba informed Ramjoo he wanted to dictate something about the Sufi terms naaz and niaz , and asked for Kishan Singh, who was not present but doing some work where the mandali were staying.
Baba complained, "Whenever I get the urge to say something important, things go wrong; either the microphone does not work, disturbances take place, the persons concerned are not present. Something always comes in my way!"