Philippe did not obey any of the instructions Baba had given him and seemed to do just what Baba had told him not to do. For example, Baba had told him not to visit saints and holy men, yet Kishan Singh reported to Baba that Philippe had traveled to Delhi and had an audience with Kirpal Singh. Baba was not pleased about this and was displeased with Kirpal Singh, also, when he heard that Kirpal Singh had referred to Baba as the "head of majzoobs."
Eruch wrote to Kishan Singh about this:
Next time, if you happen to meet Kirpal Singh, you should bring home to this sant the gross mistake that he is always committing by calling Baba as the head of majzoobs. Baba has explained to us that majzoobs (of the seventh plane) have neither any Head nor Tail among them. This is the status of one who is merged in Infinite consciousness — completely drowned in Infinite Bliss. There is no such thing as the head of majzoobs.
Had Kirpal Singh taken Baba as an ordinary man and called Baba just a man (instead of head of majzoobs), he would have said it without untruth, for Baba is also a man and the Lord of the Universe. A majzoob cannot give discourses, and cannot indulge in travels and in giving messages, for a majzoob (of the seventh plane) is completely absorbed in God consciousness.
Further, Baba instructed Adi Sr. to write to Kishan Singh to meet Kirpal Singh again and inform him:
Baba says that a majzoob on the lower planes is a mast intoxicated with divine love to the extent of being oblivious of his surroundings. A majzoob of the seventh plane, merged in his own Ocean of Divinity, is completely dead to the world.
Meher Baba sees people, meets people, holds sahavas and darshan programs, goes on world tours so many times, gives discourses, dictates God Speaks (the only spiritual book of its kind according to many scholars). To call Baba, who in fact is the King of Saliks, the head of majzoobs (which he also is) shows complete bankruptcy of spiritual knowledge.
After relaying this to Kirpal Singh, Baba wants you to convey to him Baba's love and to tell him that Baba still holds him as one of his precious beloved children.1
In response to the replies that the Westerners had sent to Baba reaffirming their love and obedience to him, Baba had this message sent to them on the 10 February 1959:
Each and every reply to the circular letter of 19th October 1958, has been read to me and your response has made me very happy.
Obedience is greater than love. Love is a gift from the Beloved to the lover, whereas obedience is an offering from the lover to the Beloved, and accepts any hardship and sacrifice. Obedience is the surrenderance of love to Love, in which the wish of the Beloved becomes the happiness of the lover.
When I say I am happy by your desire or willingness to obey me, you have already received my blessing that you will be able to do so — the happiness of the Beloved is his blessing to the lover.
Footnotes
- 1.Three years later, in 1962, Manohar and Mona Sakhare visited Kirpal Singh in Delhi to invite him to a Baba birthday function. During their meeting, Kirpal Singh spoke of how happy he was to have met Baba and referred to Baba as the Avatar. He stated, "Meher Baba is doing the work of an Avatar and helping humanity in his own way. His work is entirely different from that of saints and sadhus. Persons such as myself [saints and sadhus] are nothing before him." (A year later, Baba had Eruch write to the Sakhares never to contact Kirpal Singh again.)