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Chapter 34: Total Seclusion

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Each morning, Eruch would read out selected pieces from newspaper articles, both tragic and comic. Baba would also ask the mandali to entertain him occasionally with stories, jokes or songs. One day, even though he had never traveled there, Baidul gave a lecture in English about New York City to the delight of all.
On Saturday, 20 June 1959, Baba gave a discourse on Infinite Knowledge in which he stated:
"That which you as individuals know at this moment, I knew eons ago, and what you as individuals in ages to come will know at a particular moment, I know now."
During June, he also gave this discourse on "The Divine Response":
The moment you try to understand God rather than love Him, you begin to misunderstand Him, and your ignorance feeds your ego. Mind cannot reach that which is beyond it. God is infinite and beyond the reach of mind.
The Divine Will that brought forth this infinite illusion expresses itself in all its purity through me, and through me functions to make you turn away from illusion toward God-consciousness.
Every moment, I respond to the whole creation. My response, being a divine response, is wholly and entirely one of love. The many facets of that one response, as they appear to you, are but the reflections of your many-mirrored mind. You view and judge my actions from your level of understanding and attempt to differentiate them in the light of your own limited standard of values. Thus, it is possible for you to misinterpret the different shades of my response to different people. Being unlimited, I am simultaneously on all levels of consciousness; and as such, in my response, I differentiate one from the other solely in the light of his or her impressions [sanskaras], or the different states of consciousness that the impressions give rise to. Each action of mine is discerned with varied responses in accordance with the necessity of the recipients on varied planes of consciousness. And so, by its very nature and magnitude, my divine response sometimes appears enigmatic.
Do not try with your limited mind to understand the significance of my actions, nor try to imitate them. You must not do what I do, but do what I tell you to do. To try to bring my every action within the orbit of your understanding is but to understand the limitations of your own understanding!
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