Baba spoke briefly about the types of conviction (intellectual, sight and experience) and then stated:
I am one with you on every level, but you know this only when the ego and reason do not interfere. Then, Baba appears as he is. I am what I am. Whether the world bows down to me or turns against me, it does not matter. It is no one's fault. To know Baba is not a matter of eating laddoos. One has to die to oneself to know me. It is not just a joke, this Love.
Be happy and forget everything except what you experience here. The meeting on the 29th and 30th will be unique and lasting in its effect. Until then, don't worry about anything. Be cheerful, be honest and look after your health. Then, after the meeting is over, I want you to go directly to your destination and to take back, intact, the atmosphere of the meeting.
Baba then asked each in turn to say something. Malcolm Schloss quoted a line from one of the songs of Kabir: "Where is the need for words when love has intoxicated the heart?"
John Bass said, "I really do not know what to say ... My mind is a blank."
"To be blank is an excellent thing," Baba remarked.
Two years before, when Lud Dimpfl had met Baba in Myrtle Beach, although he felt happy to meet the Avatar, he felt perplexed as he had not felt touched by Baba in the way so many others had. Now, as he listened to some speak of their feelings of deep love for Baba, he became annoyed. He doubted their sincerity, as he did not feel the same. When it was his turn, he said something about being tongue-tied, but, upon Baba's encouragement, he said, "Baba, I do not know what we are all talking about. We sit here like a bundle of sticks. We do not see you as you are, and here we are all trying to outdo each other like King Lear's daughters as to how many compliments we give you."1
Footnotes
- 1.The play King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare.