Just remember one thing: all is illusion, only God is real, and I am God in human form. Scientists will come to know that there are other human beings on other planets, that everything is infinitely infinite, and that intelligence is absolutely nothing where love and the heart are concerned.
The Bombay group arrived at 3:00 P.M. Baba had informed them earlier not to come, but he himself called them and spent half an hour with them.
On this occasion, Baba explained about prayer: "While praying, people have the tendency of looking up, but why? There is no reason for it. There is nothing up there. God resides in your heart. So pray from within; clean your heart. There is nothing in the sky!"
One day, when Baba asked someone to pray, the devotee began: "O God, grant me health, give me long life so that I may serve Thee ..."
Baba interrupted, correcting him, "This is not a prayer, but a list of your wishes! The real prayer to God is praise for Him through love and nothing else! When you know you are in illusion, why keep asking for more of it?"
Baba had one of the mandali tell this tale to illustrate how strong maya's grip is on the world:
Once there was a beggar. He used to beg in front of a temple, and as soon as he had collected 100 naiya paisa [cents] he would convert them into one pure silver rupee coin. By the time he had collected Rs.25 he was an old man, and realized that soon he was going to die. He was in a plight as to what to do with his precious coins. So he thought that as they were his life's work, he should not part with them. They had become so precious and dear to him he decided that they should be buried with him. But knowing that people would rob the money from his dead body, he thought of a plan to keep the coins inside his body. He piled up the 25 silver coins and tried to swallow them all. There were too many and he had to clench his mouth shut over them. Straining with the effort, he suddenly died! Nevertheless, he got his wish. The coins remained tightly shut in his mouth!