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Chapter 37: East-West Gathering

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No amount of reading and understanding can lead to God-realization. You must be made to see God. When you get that conviction through sight by the grace of a Perfect Master, you are ready for Union with God.
He asked Anita, "Do you want to be one with God?"
Anita replied, "I just want to see you!"
Smilingly, Baba chided her, "How can you have two things — see me here, and see me as I really am?"
He continued:
How very complicated a simple thing has been made! I am giving you a hint. The easiest way to achieve the Goal of life is to leave all and follow me through love. I don't mean that you should leave your house and family and come here! Don't do that! [People laughed.] I mean that you be in your house and with your family, but love me as I want you to love me — love me above all. That is the simplest way.
Another hint. A still more simple way to attain God is to obey me. Obey me implicitly. Is it possible? That is simpler than the simplest thing! Try. If you try, I will help you.
It is because of love that I have drawn you all to me. If I did not love you, you would not come to me or care for me. It is not your love that has brought you to me; it is my love that has drawn you to me. Good old Margaret [Craske], she helped two other lovers to come to me.
Eruch read out Baba's message for that day:
No one dies, no one is born. The only fortunate and rare one who does die, dies the Real Death and takes birth in God. Otherwise, no one dies and no one is born.
What does this mean? It is like going to sleep. When you take another birth, another form, it is like waking up in the morning, but in a new body, in new circumstances. This process goes on repeating itself until you die the Real Death and take birth in me.
"Harry, do you have anything to say?"
Kenmore said, "This represents the ultimate blessed culmination of the supreme purpose of life."
Baba continued:
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