"What is your purpose, sir, or what is your work in the world?" asked Donald Smith.
To give my love, to awaken mankind, to make them know that everything is a delusion and God is the only Reality. One who can love God can attain to that Reality. All are one, but no one knows that Oneness. God is within you. But there is a veil and you yourself are the veil between you and God. God is within me. I have taken this form to unveil all human beings so that they can realize that God is within their own selves. Only God resides in all, and I have come to lift that veil and awaken mankind to know that there is only one Reality, and all else is illusion.
Donald Smith had become confused and stammered, "And the Reality is within and without similarly?"
Baba says there is no within and no without. Reality pervades. There is nothing beyond Reality in actuality. There is no within and no without, no ups and downs. Reality is all over — all-pervading. But so-called illusion, as we say, comes also out of Reality. It is the shadow of Reality.
As you walk, the shadow follows you, but you give no importance to the shadow. You cannot attach any importance to it because it is nothing but shadow. The shadow has come out of you; it is your own shadow that follows you. You do not follow the shadow. Exactly at midday, twelve o'clock noon, the shadow, so to say, disappears. Why? Because it was not there; therefore it has disappeared. It is only you who are the Reality and not the shadow; it has no existence at all.
Later on 11 August, at 4:15 P.M. Baba and the mandali flew from Sydney to Melbourne, 660 miles south, accompanied by 20 of his lovers from Sydney and Melbourne (those who had previously flown to Sydney to see Baba). Robert Rouse was in charge of booking the flight to Melbourne. Through John Grant, who worked as a flight controller, he chose Australian National Airlines, which had recently acquired the latest passenger aircraft, the Douglas DC-6B. It was faster than other aircraft in Australia and had a mini-lounge at the back of the plane that seated six. With Baba's permission Robert booked Baba, the four mandali and Francis in this section; the rest of the group sat with the other passengers.