Chapter 36: Interested In Remaining Disinterested
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But when the same mind tells him that there is something which may be called God and, further, when it prompts him to search for God that he may see Him face to face, he begins to forget himself and to forgive others for whatever he has suffered from them. And when a man has forgiven everyone and has completely forgotten himself, he finds that God has forgiven him everything, and he remembers who, in reality, he is.
Meanwhile, Francis was preoccupied with polishing the English of these two and other discourses to be included in a new collection which Baba titled The Everything and The Nothing . Mani and Rano were typing them. Bhau was translating some of the discourses into Hindi.
One day Baba handed him the manuscript for the book and gestured, "I want you to translate this into Hindi and make it interesting [for the Hindi speaking people]."
Bhau said, "If it is interesting in English, naturally it will be interesting in Hindi."
Baba replied, "That I don't know. I want you to make it interesting and the language should be simple."
Bhau thought over what Baba had said. It occurred to him to put the whole book in conversational form, and he completed one discourse in this style.
He read it to Baba, who was pleased and complimented him, "Yes, this is what I meant."
Baba also suggested songs should be included, and mentioned there should be a prayer, too. Bhau remembered that a few years before, in 1959, Baba had given him a special couplet in Hindi:
O priceless treasure of Knowledge! You are within and without, And you are the Ocean of Mercy. You are in all worlds; You are the Ocean of attributes! O Meher, God-Incarnate, You alone exist!
He found the couplet, made it the first couplet of the ghazal, and composed eleven more to go with it.
The next evening when he went for watch, Baba asked, "Did you compose the prayer?" and hearing that he had, Baba asked Bhau to read it to him.
Baba was pleased, but stated the prayer should be longer. Baba was in a very good mood that day and, drumming his thighs with his fists in rhythm to the lines, he began composing new couplets, which Bhau wrote down. Sitting on his bed, Baba dictated seventeen more couplets, and thus, the prayer Tumi Tau Ho (You Alone Exist) came into being. Later, Baba said that one day this prayer would be recited throughout the world.