Tukaram has also said: "The ways of the Masters stand in contradiction to those of the world."
Don't think that through all these explanations I am trying to justify my actions. Did not the Formosa [Taiwan] problem threaten great destruction? Even Nehru in one of his speeches said that half the world could be destroyed. With the exclusion of the time factor, all I have said will come to pass. For whatever I have said, God has made me say it.
Listen very carefully to what I say now. For the three months, May to July 1955, do not think much about your wife, children, money. For should you have such thoughts when the Avatar may be required to drop his body? The soldiers on active service willingly sacrifice their lives just to possess a piece of ground. Would it be of any great importance if you sacrifice your life for the Avatar? If you fail to have such readiness, your coming over here to attend the meeting would be nothing more than a picnic!
Now, one more point. All the explanations and articles have no connection with Reality. It is all a play of words and has no lasting value. Reality is beyond mind, beyond intellect. The very fact when you say that you have intellectually understood Reality shows that you have misunderstood it! To have Real Understanding, consciousness must remain, and intellect (mind) must go. It does not mean becoming mad like Punjia [an inmate] in the Mad Ashram at Rahuri! What I mean is that intellect should be the means of wholeheartedly achieving ends that are accepted by the heart. And if you obey me with all your heart, intellect will go and consciousness will remain.
A person may be very intelligent, but if he has not the fortune to have the company of a Sadguru, he will not get Self-Realization. On the other hand a person, though dull, who has that rare fortune to have the company of a Perfect Master can have Self-Realization. And I myself will bow down to such a person who is fortunate enough to be very intelligent and, at the same time, who has love for and the company of a Perfect Master.
Even after coming in contact with a Perfect Master, it is very difficult to obey him. Suppose you believe me to be the Perfect One and while obeying me, even if you have a passing thought doubting my Perfection, it would not be perfect obedience.