When the false ego is effaced, God manifests and plurality is merged in Unity forever. This is the Real Experience. If such a One lives among man as Man and leads a life of God, he is called a Sadguru. He brings Unity into plurality. Try to get a glimpse of the Perfect Master's infinitude within you. And for this, you have to leave all and follow him alone in the manner he decides for you.
Such dedication is not so easy. Mind stands in your way. It says: "What a hasty decision! Is it good to surrender to the Master? Are you sure that he is the Real One? What are his credentials? He may be a fake."
Then the heart steps in and says, "Do you not feel yourself to be a changed person in his company? Is such a loving and calm atmosphere experienced elsewhere? Is he not the One whom you were seeking?"
Thus the conflict between the mind and the heart goes on. Particularly when you are away from the Master, the mind begins to play its tricks more powerfully, and the voice of the heart becomes feeble. That is why it is difficult to have unswerving faith in the Master, and still more difficult to become dust at his feet.
Unless I help you, you cannot surrender. The moment your surrender is complete, my grace descends and then, in less than a fraction of a second, the goal of becoming consciously infinite or infinitely conscious is realized.
Tukaram was a Perfect Master. In one of his abhangs [verses of song] he has said:
"The Master, by his grace,
can make the disciple like himself in no time."
Here, someone may ask, "Why is there this long period of tests and trials? Why the delay in bestowing grace?" On the part of the Master, there is actually no delay. His is the state beyond time. In relation to the creation, only the present moment exists for him. To the illusion-bound beings, Tukaram has also said the following:
"Unless and until the opportune moment arrives,
undue haste is of no avail!"
So ages and ages have to roll on for the arrival of that opportune moment when, by the Master's grace, one is established in Reality as the Reality of God.
Neurgaonkar informed Baba about his resolve to observe silence for several days. He asked Baba whether, during that period, he could make exceptions by speaking only about God. Baba did not approve of this and said: