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Chapter 33: Western Sahavas, 1958

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A bhajan program was held, and Baba also spoke privately with Vaswani and a few others in a separate room. Vaswani's secretary asked, "Baba, when will I realize God?" Baba did not answer, so the man said, "Baba, why don't you answer me? There are so many questions I wish to ask."
Baba responded:
There is only one question. And once you know the answer to that question, there are no more questions to ask. In fact, there are not two questions. There is only the one Original Question. And to that one Original Question there is only one Final Answer. In between the Original Question and the Final Answer, there are innumerable false answers.
From out of the depths of unbroken Infinity arose the Question: "Who am I?" And to that one Question there is the only Answer: "I am God!"
God is Infinite; therefore His shadow, too, must be infinite. Reality is infinite in its Oneness; illusion is infinite in its duality. The one Question, arising from the oneness of the Infinite, goes through a maze of answers infinitely unending in the duality of illusion.
So, before you arrive at that Final Real Answer, there are countless false answers to be received, tested and discarded — such as "I am stone ... I am bird ... I am animal ... I am man ... I am woman ... I am great ... I am small," and so on, and so on, ad infinitum. These "answers" are as distorted echoes resounding from the hollow forms of unending nothingness, repeatedly misleading until finally leading to the right answer, the one and Final Answer, "I am God!"
So stop giving yourself false answers, and then you will realize God.
Dada Vaswani had many followers, all of whom Baba allowed darshan. Baba appeared to be in a happy mood. Homa was to drive Baba back to Ahmednagar in Meherjee's car. Meherjee's wife brought the car to Saint Mira High School and handed the keys to Homa, who locked the car. Baba was occupied with giving darshan, and Homa was gazing at him as if entranced. Joy and happiness prevailed in this pleasant atmosphere. Seeing Baba's smile had a wonderful effect.
Suddenly Homa remembered the keys and discovered he had locked them inside the car. He became nervous, went to tell Meherjee. Meherjee told Homa to go quickly to his house and bring a duplicate set. The darshan was about to end. Homa took another car and was able to return just as Baba was stepping out of the hall.
Baba left with the mandali in Meherjee's car for Meherazad, and remarked on the way, "No stool, no urine, but the work done was quite good!"
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