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Chapter 28: 1955 Meherabad Sahavas

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If you become angry, try firmly not to express it. If you believe that you are good and another is bad, then try to make him like yourself. But lovingly! If you are well-to-do, feed the poor and help them. When your child or dear one is ill or in any difficulty and you feel for him, feel in the same way for the child or dear one of another as you feel for your own. Let others also enjoy the effects of happiness and riches as you yourself enjoy them. How fine it would be were you to heighten your feeling for others and act accordingly. I am one with all in that unity.
Referring to the subject of his devotees going to saints, mahatmas and other holy men, Baba explained:
I have no objection to your paying homage to such really great ones; but don't go to them purposely. I am everywhere, in everything and everybody. So where is the harm in going to such big souls? You should respect those superior to you, and you can see mahatmas if you wish. But don't go to them with the thought that it is necessary for you to go to them.
Dr. Deshmukh is my very learned lover. Seeing me going to masts and bowing down to them, he began doing the same. It went to such an extent that he would shoulder a mast, take him to his house and serve him. This gave rise to discord between him and his wife. She began wondering what I had told him that caused him to be acting in this way! When I came to know of it, I called both to me and told Deshmukh that just as one visits a movie house for recreation, or to pass the time, or one goes to see a play, in the same way he could go to masts and saints. Even if you go to any saints or mahatmas or masts with spiritual intent, it will not affect me; but if you want God-realization, then you must hold fast to my daaman! There is no other way.
One man posed this question: "I am a frequent visitor to Motiwala Baba, and if he asks me to stay with him when you call me to Meherabad, what should I do?"
If you stay with him, you will create complications.
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