Volume 1 Number 2 Page 11 Union with GOD

"Everyone is an atheist till he finds GOD by actual experience. It is better to be an atheist and be honest in words and deeds, than to pose as a lover of GOD and lead a dishonest life. GOD is independent. He needs no worship. He only needs that we be honest."

TO A QUESTION posed by one visitor as to why GOD had created the Universe, BABA replied:

"Who says GOD has created this world? We have created it by our own imagination. GOD is Supreme, Independent. When we say He has created this illusion we lower Him and His Infinity; He is beyond all this. Only when we find Him in ourselves and even in our day-to-day life, then do all doubts vanish. We then know Him and therefore have not even to think about Him. Do you ever have to think as to whether you are a man or a woman? The answer is "No," because you know you are a man. So it is when we become GOD. Unless and until we experience this supreme Knowledge, it is all mere talk, reasoning, logic and theory. I give you my Love."

TO ONE WHO anxiously inquired, "How to love GOD," BABA answered:

"How to love GOD? How do you love anything? If a man falls in love with a beautiful girl, what happens then? No system or principal exists for him. He won't mind ridicule. If people call him mad, he does not mind.

"One should become lost in the idea of possessing the Beloved by hook or by crook. When you are prepared in your heart of hearts to gain Union with GOD at the cost of life and the ridicule of the whole world, then perhaps you may be said to have entered the Lane of Divine Love."

TO ONE GROUP BABA explained how "We should love GOD as He ought to be loved." *

"Because in the very beginning imagination gave a twist to Substance and thus importance to Shadow, we, who are eternally Free, find ourselves bound, having lost our original Self in the maze of Illusion. Therefore, in