How can you annihilate your own self? If you want to tear the veil, destroy your ego! How? All efforts to remove the veil strengthen it, and knots upon knots accumulate and become twisted tighter. The easiest way is to surrender your ego to me, regardless of how I handle it.
Baba continued:
On the spiritual path, the only sin is hypocrisy. Be honest. You yourself are the veil. Realization is simple, but you yourself make it extremely difficult. From the beginning, you are God! Who has bound you? Your mind! When you are asleep, you are free, but not consciously. When you wake up, all the worldly paraphernalia surrounds you.
So you must become fully conscious in your deep sleep state. Garlanding and bowing down are not enough. If you long for God, you should long for Him on the strength of the worth of your life!
If your mind tries to deceive you, it does not matter. But beware lest your hands deceive you, resulting in the slipping of my daaman from your grasp!
When some academic scholars from Poona visited and asked various questions, Baba explained things to them for some time and then remarked, "Intellectual giants are pygmies before the true lovers of God."
A young college graduate who had been loving Baba from his teenage years came for darshan with his two sons on Thursday, 12 May 1960.
Baba remarked to him: "Once you were a child, and now you have come with children. As one grows in age there is a nonstop flow of positive desires. 'I want this ... I want that ... I want a wife ... I want children ... I want position ... I want, I want, I want!'
"Whether you become successful or unsuccessful in fulfilling these desires, at a later stage there surges a wave of negative desires [in reaction], such as, 'I don't want this ... I don't want that ... I am fed up with my wife ... I am fed up with my position ... I don't want, I don't want,' et cetera.
"The real thing is that you should neither be carried away by the so-called pleasures, nor feel bored with them. You should face every situation with complete faith in God's will."
That day a Catholic priest, Father Anthony Elenjimittam, 45, came for Baba's darshan. The priest was the founder of the St. Catherine of Siena School in Bandra, whose aim was to educate poor children and orphans irrespective of caste, creed and community. Baba remarked to him: