Here is Baba's explanation: If you happen to meet a beautiful girl, and you fall in love with her at first sight, as you call it, you become restless. You begin to love her so much that you cannot sleep, you have no appetite, no interest in the world. You want only to possess her. Baba says that one should love him to such an extent that one forgets about food, sleep, rest. One becomes absolutely restless to be one with Baba, to possess Baba. That does not mean that we really should give up food or sleep. The restlessness should come naturally, spontaneously. How will it come? Think of Baba — think of him frequently.
Christ said: "Leave all and follow me." What did he mean by that? He did not mean leave the body, food, sleep and all that. No. He meant leave all thoughts of possessions, all worldly thoughts, and think only of him.
Baba says: "Think of me to such an extent that you see me, however far away I may be. You see my body here now. However far away my body may be, you will be able to see me physically also. In India some love me to such an extent that they see me physically present, although I am thousands of miles away from them."
There is one of my mandali called Kaikobad ...
"The one who sees suns and moons coming out of himself?" asked Don Stevens.
"Yes," Baba replied.
Now Kaikobad sees me in everything. His experience is such nowadays that he sees me in everything. I am here physically, but he sees me everywhere. He has been loving me for years together. He has his family, of course, but he has renounced them. They all stay at one place, while he stays with me and thinks of me all the time constantly — 24 hours a day.
If you cannot love me, do not worry. I will be loving you.
Then Baba gestured something which Eruch found difficult to grasp. He repeated the alphabet and Baba stopped him at 'G.' Finally Eruch caught it: "What Baba says is you have to love God so much until you are goofy with love!"
Michael J. Loftus piped up, "Does that mean, Baba, you want us to be goofy Sufis?" Baba put his thumb and forefinger together with a twinkle in his eyes, and from then on called them his "Goofy Sufis."