If you keep all four fingers in front of your eyes, you will not be able to see me. So, how can profound subjects be discussed? Tukaram has said:
How can I thank the Perfect Master?
He is that one who keeps me alert every moment!
Consequently, I have been warning you often about backbiting, and I previously had a Life Circular issued about it.
Observing one woman who looked worried about something, Baba remarked:
"Shut the trap of your mind and end all your worries. Open the trap of your heart and release love."
To another who was likewise facing difficulties, Baba urged:
"Don't worry over physical suffering. Even if the body were cut to pieces, it matters little in comparison with the heart getting stained. Try your utmost to keep the heart pure. Let your faith remain unadulterated. Through the body, you get a chance to suffer, but a time gradually comes, and it must come, when all sufferings are over. Then you leave the body for good and experience eternal bliss."
On Friday, 29 April 1960, about 50 lovers and devotees arrived from Calcutta, Jabalpur and Hamirpur. To a group from Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, Baba said:
The untold Infinite Treasure is within you. The only problem is that you do not seek it within you. You look without. This has been your habit from your apparent birth in the Beginningless Beyond.
The moment you awaken from sleep, you start looking outside of yourself. On the Path, as you begin to look within, you see some sparks of the Treasure. But these are just the shadows of the Real Treasure.
The Perfect Master has the key that opens the last gate which leads to and opens this Infinite Treasure. To aspire to have a look at, or to become one with, the Infinite Treasure — God — is in a way sheer madness. It has to be that degree of madness which remains unaffected by the most alluring pleasures or the most sorrowful pains. The infinitely affectionate "look" — nazar — of the Perfect Master can awaken such "madness." But for this, you have to lead a life according to the Master's instructions with complete resignation to his will. It makes no difference whether you are physically near or away from him.