[Someone interrupted Baba with a question.]
When you are in my company, be fully attentive and receptive to what I dictate without questioning. Love me and be silent. Pampering of the intellect brings forth innumerable questions. All these questions of the mind can be answered, but that is hardly spiritually indispensable. Mere intellectual explanations will not take you out of the internal muddle, but will puzzle you all the more. Very rare persons have the necessary acumen.
Try to grasp what I have already said. The more you love me, the less you question. Love answers all questions, for it ignores questioning itself.
Hold on to my daaman, even if it amounts to hell and heaven becoming one! Worry not about the conflicting thoughts, but be aware that your grip has firmly clasped my daaman. Let not the grip be loosened in any event.
To demand anything from the Beloved is an insult to love. Love only gives and goes on giving until the Will of the Beloved alone manifests through the lover.
Beauty and love are linked. There is always a sweet tussle in the heart of a lover between God's beauty and love. God's beauty and love demand sacrifice and total surrender. The lover of God has to do whatever the Beloved wants.
One of the mandali told Baba that he had trouble giving a satisfactory answer to one of his friends when the latter asked him, "What is God?"
"You should have counter-questioned him, 'What is not God?' " Baba said. "The answer is so simple."
A large darshan was held on Sunday, 1 May 1960, when thousands attended. Notable among them was a famous Indian actor, Prem Nath, 34, who came late in the evening with his small son. Baba surprisingly agreed to grant him an interview. The precocious boy recited [from Shakespeare] Hamlet's soliloquy in English before Baba "To be, or not to be ..."
Often, during Baba's previous stays at Guruprasad, many screenwriters from Bombay would come to Baba, wishing to obtain his blessings for success in their film ventures. Baba would always impress on them the necessity of portraying spiritual truths in their movies. During 1960, several influential persons connected with the film industry came for Baba's darshan.
One day (23 May) D. D. Kashyap, 50, a Bombay film director, came for darshan in the morning and stayed for two hours.
Baba remarked to him, "I know everything. Even then, I want you to introduce yourself to me. All this is to meet you on your level. I am happy to see you. Are you happy? Have you any worry?"