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Chapter 5: The Silence Begins

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Similarly, the ocean is in the bubble; intelligence is in imagination, but limited.
When a few outside visitors came in the evening, Baba explained to them:
The whole world is enmeshed in the grip of lust for women and wealth, while the real aim of life is to achieve the Truth. Unless God is realized, the purpose of acquiring a human body is frustrated, and the real object of life remains unfulfilled.
But Realization is impossible until intelligence is purified and freed of imagination. This can only be achieved by keeping the company of saints. For this reason, intimate contact with a Master is essential for Realization. But such Real Heroes [Perfect Ones] are very, very rare, while the world abounds with fakes and hypocrites who pose as divine guides. How can one who has not had the Experience of Truth guide others toward it?
After fasting for several days, Baba ate a little food at 11:30 A.M. on Friday, 26 March. Two days later, a debating society for the students was formed and a reorganization of the fourteen members of the Circle Committee occurred.
For four months — from 11 November 1925 to 28 March 1926 — Baba's seat during the night had been inside the Table Cabin, but from 29 March, Baba began staying in the box-like cabin in Sai Darbar. He continued writing his book there and would leave only at noon for his daily round of inspections, and return there at 6:00 P.M.
Although Baba did not reveal what he was writing in his book, he would on occasion make spontaneous remarks regarding spirituality or esoteric points. On Tuesday, 30 March, during one of his inspection tours, he revealed to the mandali:
Sanskaras assume different colors according to the language one uses when discussing a subject. For instance, three brothers once saw their mother on the road. One called her "Mother," another addressed her as "Wife of my father," and the third said, "Woman who has physical relations with my father!" What all three meant was the word mother , but their ways of expressing it were vastly different. And so, one's choice of words brings about different color sanskaras and different reactions.
Later the same day, while explaining about the beginning of creation, Baba remarked, "Creation came out of Nothing. And though it is nothing, it is something; but ultimately there is Everything. When one says that it is nothing, the nothingness of this nothing has being!"
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