The result will ever be that God was ever before the time you can imagine. How can you succeed to bring God, Who is beyond time, into the bounds of time? To experience the timeless experience of being God the Infinite, patience and impatience are necessary. How can this be achieved? The first step toward this achievement can be taken by having an ardent aspiration to become like the dust at the feet of the Perfect Master. The more lightweight you become, the higher you get wafted by the ever-blowing breeze of his compassion.
Pointing to Pukar, Baba remarked:
Here is a fatty, a heavy person. Suppose he wants to fly high in the air — not in an airplane. I am only giving a simile. What should he do? What should he become? If he becomes light, like a dry leaf, then just a breeze is enough to lift him high up in the air. Owing to ego, your life becomes infinitely heavy and bulky. Ego is the obstacle.
This false ego of the mind must be effaced. But it is almost impossible. Removal of the false ego is the end of separate existence.
Ego generally expresses itself as pride. So a man says: "I alone did that work. It is only I who could do that work that way." Pride nourishes the ego.
The other aspect of the ego is still more subtle. It is connected with your so-called inalienable identification with the body and mind. You feel that it is perfectly natural for you to say, "I am so-and-so. I see, I touch, I smell, I speak, I taste, I dream, I sleep, I am awake," et cetera. To have the Real Experience, the false ego has to be transformed into the Real I.
This is not easy. In this process the false ego, with all its subtlety, wages guerrilla warfare. It tries to deceive one at every step. Keeping company of saints and Masters is the remedy. The hard shell of the ego becomes softer and softer in their company, and one becomes courageous enough to face one's own weaknesses.
By leading a fearless and honest life, hypocrisy gradually gets weakened. When the heart becomes absolutely clean with honesty, hypocrisy is completely wiped off. This is a very long process, not only in terms of years but in terms of reincarnations [lifetimes]!