I always tell those who love me that if they feel I am the Avatar and Ancient One, they should say so openly. But if there is the slightest doubt in your mind about it, then say you don't feel Baba is the Avatar. If you think I am a fraud, say so. I am the Ancient One, and whatever you say does not affect me in the least. If the whole world were to bow down at my feet or oppose me, it is one and the same to me. I remain unaffected by praise or abuse.
Abdul Majid, if you don't feel Baba to be the Avatar, don't tell people that he is. If you speak about me at your own place and say: "Baba is the Avatar, the only Reality and everything else is illusion," and at the same time, if you were to get a telegram about the death of your wife and start beating your breast, sobbing and crying — what will your audience think? They will find that you behave differently from what you exhort, and what you call illusion you now weep about! You preach what you yourself do not practice. You have the right to tell people about me only when you yourself practice what I tell you!
Abdul Majid Khan declared, "I have full faith in your Avatarhood, Baba, and on the strength of that faith I inform people about you."
Baba replied, "I know it. You have full faith in me, and I love you. You are my gem."
After a fifteen-minute recess, everyone reassembled at 9:35 A.M. in the hall, and Baba continued his dictation:
When I say I am the Ancient One, I am in you all, in everything, and I alone am — this I of mine is different from Eruch's I which says "I am Eruch." The question naturally arises, what is the difference between the I of the Ancient One and the I of all others? What more can I say, because I am the Ancient One! And what more can Eruch say besides, "I am a man, I am Eruch." In the same way, besides declaring that I am the Ancient One, there is nothing else to say. It is quite natural for me to say so, as I am THAT! My I is the Truth, infinite and indivisible! Your I is false, limited and full of duality.