Today, I will be the poorest among the poor while
washing their feet, and if you take Baba's name, everything will be
nullified. So you must take God's name according to your religion. There is
no harm if you utter Ram or Krishna, as I am them. When my work with the poor is
over, I will become what I am. I affirm, I am the Highest of the High. Truth
always remains Truth. We cannot disguise Truth or change it. When we speak of
the Truth, we do not compromise. To approach Truth, you should approach it
through Truth itself: no hide-and-seek here.
One day you will know what I say is quite true, and
from that Experience, you will understand that nothing has happened so far,
nothing is happening and nothing will ever happen! In Eternity, time does not
exist. What was there 600 years before? What was before that, and before that? God was and you were, and God is and you are!
You cannot grasp this with your mind and its infinite
thoughts. How far can you imagine? Imagination is limitless, and where there is
no end, there is eternity. There is nothing like time. God has always existed. He is. Eternity goes on being eternity, and it has no past, present or future. What happened in the past is in the present as nothing happened! There is
nothing except the present moment, which is from the beginningless beginning. It
is difficult to grasp this, because it is beyond the realm of intellect.
The poor program started at 8:45 A.M. and lasted for one
hour. Two hundred and fifty poor men and women were brought, and as usual, Baba
washed their feet and paid each four rupees. During the program, those in the
sahavas group who were Hindu uttered "Parabrahma Paramatma!" and the Muslims "Allah hu Akbar!" This time, too, Baba himself
washed the table on which the poor people had stood, as if cleansing it of
something. While he was washing it, a boy was standing nearby. Making him stand
on the table, Baba washed his feet also. He then thoroughly rinsed the table
with water and instructed Pendu to burn the towels with which he had wiped the
feet of the poor. This time, several among them were blind, and one was a
leper.
When Baba was on his way to his cabin after the program,
he embraced Srivastava and joked, "When I feel cold, I embrace
someone."