Imagination is greater than intellect. For example, while you are sitting here, imagine something. When your mind imagines it, you are the creator of that particular subject or object. Now elaborate; further your imagination, letting it take you to any lengths. In so doing, you are the preserver — for anything created is preserved until destroyed. You sustain what you have created.
Now if I were to tell you to stop imagining and you stop, then there is nothing, no imagination. The subject is dissolved or destroyed. And so, even in your daily lives, you perform the three aspects of God as the creator, preserver and dissolver or destroyer. These are not attributes, such as power, knowledge and bliss, but aspects of God.
God's infinite imagination creates and sustains the creation. But who then created God?
Baba asked Hoshang Bharucha that question, and he replied, "God was, God is and God will always be."
"God is and will always be. That is correct," Baba stated. "But who created the 'was' state? How did God come into being?"
Baba explained: "God Himself 'created' God, and so He is called Khuda [the Self-Existing God].1 God's imagination in the Beyond state created the world, but God's imagination in the Beyond, Beyond state created God. This fact cannot be understood with the mind, but can be experienced only with real knowledge."
Bachoobhai and other lovers from Navsari sang a few bhajans.
On hearing them, Baba jokingly remarked, "Today I feel I should come again after 1400 years, as even the thought of coming after 700 years seems so tiresome."
Harry Kenmore was asked to recite the Master's Prayer.
Afterward, Baba humorously remarked to Deshmukh and Khilnani, two men whom he always referred to as tightwads, "If you give me ten million rupees, I will give you God-realization!"
Deshmukh replied that if Baba helped him, he would be able to procure that sum.
Baba corrected him, "I don't want your money! What I want is your love and a clean heart, which are beyond any millions of rupees."
After arti, Baba entered the side room, where he played cards with the mandali and a few others.
He informed them, "Kaka Baria has been shifted to a hospital in Ahmednagar because of kidney trouble. He did not want to leave Meherazad, and I had to order him to do so."
At noon, Baba dispersed the group.
Footnotes
- 1.Khuda, the Persian name of God, also means Self-Law — one who is a law unto himself.