You are very old, Don, ages old! And you are bound. And you will be bound and you will go on getting bound age after age. Age after age, the same bindings will be created, you'll try to free yourself and in so doing, get re-bound. But once you are liberated completely, then you will realize that there was no binding at all. It was just imagination — a dream; you were seeing and experiencing only a dream.
All of you here are very old — ancient ones. All are God, God is within each one, and God is not bound by time: He is eternal. You are all eternal. Now you are bound. You feel you are bound and you continue to get bound; but there will be a time when every individual gets freed, gets liberated. Then that individual realizes that all his bindings were just in a dream — he was seeing a dream.
Christ took upon himself the sufferings of others. Why? To liberate humanity. And the bindings are still there. Mankind is still bound. Yet, liberation does not require time. You are bound for ages, but when you get liberated, it is instantaneous — it comes in a flash!
Just think of it. God is within all, in everyone, and He is infinite. God is all-powerful, God is all-bliss. And yet, though God is in each one, how helpless we feel! We weep, we feel pain, we feel sorrow, although God, Who is so infinitely powerful and blissful, is there! Why? It is because of our own bindings. But there is one way to get liberated from these bindings, and that is through love ."
Don Stevens read the third message "Freedom from Opposites" once more. And Baba added:
You have heard this read out, and everyone listened. But it is not the experience — just hearing all these things. It can be understood mentally. Mind can appreciate it. Mind understands all this. But what is wanted is actual experience. As soon as you get the Experience, you know! You know that everything is illusion and that God is Reality.
When I was studying in school, in college, I was not interested in reading about all these things, of course. I had nothing to do with spirituality. I never read philosophical or spiritual books. My father Sheriarji was thinking all the time of God and searching for Him. He was a seeker, a great seeker. He roamed on foot from place to place in Iran, then came to India. He was searching, but he couldn't find what he was looking for. In India, he married. Why? Because of past connections, past impressions or sanskaras.