Now, while I was on the boat going to the West, Gandhiji was on the same boat. He came for three nights to my cabin. He said a lot of things, and I explained a lot of things. All of a sudden, he said, "I had been to Upasni Maharaj, but he did not impress me as you do."
I said, "What you are impressed with in me is due to him." I explained this to him.
In the end, he said, "Now, this oppression is too much. Break your silence and give a message to the world." I said, "Soon," and 22 years have passed. But now really, in a few months, I will have to break my silence. What I tell you today is witnessed by the Five Masters to whom I owe what I am.
I am the Ancient One, the One without a second.
Soon, a very serious, painful illness will befall me, and then I will break my silence with that one Original Word. That will be followed by my humiliation, then glorification and all of a sudden a violent, physical death. All this will happen within a year.
I am the Ancient One. Be very honest in whatever you do, even in loving me 100 percent. Be honest, and honesty will make you love God so that you lose yourself in Him and find me as your own Self.
Although God is beyond all ceremonies and rituals, I want you to understand that whatever Maharaj has entrusted you to do, follow it faithfully, honestly, 100 percent — not because of ceremonies, but because Maharaj told you. But, for heaven's sake, do not make it just mechanical. It will then bind you, rather than free you. Let all be done with all your heart in it; then you will know that all is illusion and God is the only Reality. And, unless you have that experience and continual bliss — that continual Existence continually infinite — all else is just bunkum.
If millions of people placed their heads on your feet, garlanded you, called you a Sadguru, and if you have not got that Experience, then what is the use of all this? And, even if the whole world goes against you, and you have that Experience, then you do not mind because it is you who do it.
So, today I am happy and I will break my silence before the end of this year. Then, there will be humiliation, glorification and then dropping of the body.