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Chapter 38: Guruprasad Garden, 1963

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"I don't know," Vinoo said.
Eruch proposed, "Mind sees. Baba has said that it is the mind that sees and does not see, that eats and does not eat, that speaks and does not speak, that sleeps and does not sleep. It is the mind that does everything."
Baba explained, "You are the One who does not see anything but only exists. As soon as you identify yourself with the mind, you are a person. If you do not, you are the Infinite."
Baba asked Vinoo, "Why do you want to go to the length of satisfying others through reasoning? This is doing wrong to them."
Vinoo explained, "Because they believe in the power of reasoning."
"Why feed them with that which ought to die?"
Vinoo replied, "To help them go beyond reasoning with the help of reason."
Baba advised, "Help your colleagues to unlearn what they have learned!"
Narendra Thade got married on 1 May 1963. After the wedding he and his bride, Sheila, came to see Baba at Guruprasad. From that day on, Baba kept asking Thade whether or not he had kissed his wife. Thade would look embarrassed and mutter, "No, not yet."
After a few days of this, Baba remarked to Thade, "How unfit you are to be a good husband! What must that poor girl be thinking!"
Baba ordered him to bring Sheila to Guruprasad by car at once, and he did as instructed.
Making her sit beside him, Baba emphatically gestured, "Remember that I am God!"
In fact, Sheila had been wondering what her married life with Narendra Thade would be like on account of his contact with Meher Baba. Baba directed the couple to embrace each other in front of him, which they did. Baba took out a petal from his garland and gave it to Sheila to swallow.
The next day, when Narendra Thade came to Guruprasad, Baba inquired, "What is the progress?"
"Of what?" Thade asked.
"Of a child, you fool!"
"I don't know!" Thade blushed, deeply embarrassed.
Baba turned to Pratap and gestured, "Tell Narendra that he must have a child!"
Before leaving Guruprasad for Meherazad, Baba instructed Narendra, "Inform me as soon as Sheila is pregnant."
(Four months later, word was received that she was expecting.)
One day Narendra's brother, Kisan Thade, was playing cards with Baba. All of a sudden doubts about Baba began assailing his mind.
And just as suddenly, Baba asked him, "Who am I?"
He replied, "The Highest of the High!"
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