Under certain circumstances, one may change one's group, because all are doing my work, but that does not mean every worker should have his hand "on both sides of the drum" as we say in India. It also does not mean that people of one group should not be on harmonious terms with the other group. In fact, there should always be loving cooperation for my work.
Ivy loves me. She tells her Sufi group to love me. John Bass tells his group to love me. Everything comes to me. Everything is as if said to me. You should not gossip about each other; all should be friends. Ivy, you have written wonderful letters about John.
John interjected, "Especially since the book God Speaks !" At that remark people laughed, because John had sold a tremendous number of books.
Ivy remonstrated, "That is unkind. Makes me sound like cupboard love!"
Baba said, "It is wrong to say that people should not come to Baba through 'isms.' You are welcome to choose your own path with your leader. But you should not go back and forth. All should join in any joint Baba project."
Meherjee asked Baba, "What is wrong with attending a different meeting now and then?"
Baba answered, "They can go, but it usually creates some misunderstanding. In your body, everything belongs to you — arms, hands, but however hard you try, you cannot strangle yourself with your own hands. You cannot do it. Don, you explain."
Don Stevens rose and said, "Baba says, each of us has our own two hands, our own two arms. Have you ever felt your own hands would strangle you? They may try, but they cannot. They could only strangle another person."
Baba continued:
John Bass is my left hand, Ivy is my right hand and all of you are my throat! So how can these two hands throttle me? Is it possible? Suppose there is a red ant; it is possible the right hand might slap the left hand in killing it.
What about Elizabeth? To what group does she belong? Yet she may be loving me even more than any group heads or those working in certain groups. There may be greater lovers of Baba than the group heads; that is not to be judged. Yet someone who does not belong to any group may be the greatest lover of all!
What I want is love and to make others know about Truth — what I say about truth and love for humanity.