In the same way, I too cannot prevent myself from saying I am the Ancient One because it is I myself. Were Eruch to read God Speaks , he would come to know he is God, but this understanding will not give him the experience of being God.
Tomorrow, I will tell you about love and surrender. You should not ask for the welfare, health or money for your family. Don't think that this is a good opportunity for you to ask for my blessings. Don't expect such things. If you have come with that idea, whatever little you do have will also disappear. Saints, walis and mahatmas are there to fulfill your wants. Go to them to satisfy your desires. But if you want the real thing [to become God], then I hold the key.
Baba then explained about the three types of traders — the merchant prince , the wholesaler and the retailer — as he had previously done to the Telugu group.
Before the Hindi group went for lunch, Eruch read out what Baba had dictated at Meherazad the previous evening about The Head and the Hair on the Head:
God is Infinite Reality, whereas the cosmos is infinite illusion. But both are not infinite in the same sense. God is One Infinite and illusion is infinite in numbers. God is Infinite Unity and illusion is infinite duality. Always God is. All along illusion is not. Illusion or no illusion, God remains beginningless and endless, while illusion has a beginning in illusion and it also ends in illusion.
The infinite illusion includes an infinite number of suns, stars, moons, planets and worlds. The whole of the creation goes on evolving ad infinitum in illusion.
Take for instance the head of a man with innumerable hairs growing over the same skull. When all hairs are shaved off, the growth of hair does not cease; the hairs reappear and cover the head all over again. Even when the head becomes bald, it is only the hairs which disappear; the head remains a head.
Compared to the one head, the hairs, although innumerable, have next to no value. They may appear and disappear without any difference to the value of the head as such. The value attached to the hair is mostly decorative, as a means of attraction and as a lure of self-satisfaction.
Similarly, the individual mind that generates infinite thoughts may be compared with the individual head that has a growth of innumerable hairs.