I know a number of great saints, but he is the greatest person I ever met. He has such a divine smile! Baba's love is reflected in his appearance, at first sight, and whoever comes face to face with him is taken aback, finding himself incapable of grasping the whole beauty which confronts him all of a sudden. Look at his face! The entire world is in it: it is full of affection, of humility, of virtue, of knowledge! My meeting him was like a river falling into the Ocean of Love, like a child learning to walk, running to the lap of its mother. Isn't it remarkable that I, coming from Agra and Benares, the great center of saints, should have come West and met Baba here?
Later, Baba called everyone in, and Don Stevens read the message "God, Man and the God-Man." Baba added:
In the God-Man, God as Father, Son and Man are one. God is infinite beyond all comprehension, Son is infinite mind, and Man is the human side. The God-Man experiences all the three states simultaneously; in him, Father, Son and Man are one. In his Christ-conscious state, he experiences all the three states at once. As Father, he is Infinite and beyond all conception; as Son, he is Infinite, but he comes down to our level; as Man, he experiences himself as human. Jesus Christ, the God-Man or the Avatar, took on the suffering of all humanity.
After an hour break for lunch, the group returned to the hotel. More and more people came to meet Baba, including a sweet, elderly French-Belgian woman journalist named Manon Clement D'Arlaine.
Filis was sitting by the door when a pretty young woman came up and asked what was happening? Why were there so many people milling about? Filis replied, "The Messiah is inside." She asked whether she too could meet Baba, and Filis took her to Adi, who led her inside. The girl later came out, eyes shining, and thanked Filis. A lucky passerby.
About four o'clock, Baba called the group in again to hear the message "How Does One Work For Baba?" A large hall had been opened behind the interview room to accommodate the crowd, and Baba went there and paced rapidly back and forth.
Again, he called his lovers to the smaller room to hear the message "God Knows Not, To God Knows Self." At the small private meeting that followed, Dr. W. Y. Evans-Wentz, 78 a noted scholar and author, met Baba.1 Evans-Wentz had written a favorable review of God Speaks, and Baba asked him if he would write an introduction to the collection of messages from this tour titled Life At Its Best. Dr. Evans-Wentz agreed.
Footnotes
- 1.Evans-Wentz had also attended the recent reception for Baba at the Delmonico Hotel in New York.