"You should have kept someone near the door!" Baba said. "Why didn't you think of that?"
Baba gathered the sahavas group in the hall and described Bhau's negligence in detail, asking whether he should be forgiven. Everyone said yes, and Baba pardoned Bhau.
At 3:00 P.M., Baba said a few words on dnyan – divine knowledge:
Dnyan is of two kinds, imperceptible ( paroksh ) and perceptible ( aparoksh ), Ilmul Yakin and Huq-ul-Yakin (Becoming). We will skip over the intermediate stages. It is also referred to as intellectual knowledge and spiritual knowledge. Volumes have been written on knowledge. However much I would like to explain it, it is impossible. Knowledge, or wisdom, is to be experienced. Still, I will take you nearest to understanding the subject as never done before.
Knowledge through mind is not Huq-ul-Yakin , the conviction of Becoming. There is an infinite difference between intellectual knowledge and the knowledge gained by Becoming. Even knowledge through the mind state only a few achieve. I am in all. This knowledge that I am in all, in everything, am everything, and that I am the only one — only a very few realize through the mind.
Volumes abound in Hindu philosophy about Knowledge. In God Speaks I have explained it very clearly. After you read the book, you will come to the understanding that there is nothing besides I. This is not Knowledge, this is understanding. From the beginning to the end, there is nothing but God. After reading about it, you will come to the conclusion that you are God. But this is not even mental knowledge: it is only mental or intellectual understanding. What is mental knowledge and what is mental understanding? We come to the understanding that we all are one. When you finish reading God Speaks , you will say what Baba has said is true. Mental understanding is that which makes you understand that God is everywhere and nothing exists but God. But, within a few minutes, this understanding is disturbed by a sense of suffering, or by some insult and so on.
What is mental knowledge? Suppose a man has read many books, even God Speaks , and he comes to the understanding that I am all in all. He takes it for granted that Baba is one with God. But even when he suffers some insult or humiliation or suffering, he says it is all God's will, and has no thought of revenge or hatred or anything of the sort. This is mental knowledge. And even this mental state very few gain.