Me, try to please Me, try to do as I wish. That is how you should live in the world; otherwise it is too complicated. Hafiz says, 'When I first began to love God, I thought that was the end of everything, that I had fathomed the ocean of love, but I was only on the beach.’

"He didn't know anything about the ocean. As soon as the ocean touched him he got a breeze of love, but then the waves tossed him back on the beach . . . He shouts, 'O why did I crave for you, God? What is this being tossed back and forth from the ocean to the shore? I have left the world for You, but I cannot find You!' Then the Perfect Master comes to his rescue. He teaches him that the Pearl (of Realization) is on the ocean-bed . . . You have to learn to swim, then learn to dive, then find the Pearl and bring it back! . . . After 40 years, Hafiz got the Pearl in his hands. It took 40 years for one who was absolutely determined . . . Not like you people here who have just heard of it!" Baba smiled.

"A person on the spiritual path gets the urge to know God. Then if, on the Path, he begins to see lights, colors, etc., he thinks he has reached the goal; that he is experiencing God! He does not realize he has not even begun the journey. It is all Tamasha.* There are lots of experiences of the Path but all of them are but a passing show. The sign of having realized God is that a person continuously experiences, without a break, that he is everything and everyone. He is the infinite ocean of Bliss; he is omnipotent and omniscient. But this experience is not got by everyone;—only one rare soul realizes God.

"To realize God is not so easy as one thinks. But this can be gained through love for God... by becoming dust at the feet of the Perfect Master. This means to obey Him implicitly. You are no longer your own—you belong completely to the Perfect Master. Hafiz says, 'If you want to be the chosen one, leave everything and stick to Him in obedience. The question of why, wherefore, and what, should not enter your mind.' Harry, Margaret, is it clear?"

Baba continued:“Another point is that God alone is and there is nothing but God. God is indivisibly One, and He is indivisibly in each and everyone, He cannot be divided. Yet we see everywhere the divisions. What is this separateness? There is Anita, Beryl, Ella, Harry, Charles, others. . . Why this separateness? Why are you all separate? God is in everyone and in Baba too―and God is everyone. Baba himself is God. Then what are these divisions? It is only the play of Maya and your ignorance. There are no divisions.

*the play of illusion