"Now for Nadia to go, this does not mean that her physical body has to go. The idea of Nadia must go. Very simple. But why is it so difficult? Because Nadia has to make Nadia go.

"If you merge in me, Nadia goes. Now, the easiest way for Nadia to go is to forget herself — to forget herself as Nadia. How? Think less of Nadia. How? By thinking more of Baba. That is, the less you think of Nadia, and the more you think of Baba, the sooner Nadia goes. When Nadia merges in Baba, Nadia is finished. Baba remains. But if you go on thinking how to do it and how to merge, then this thought keeps you back. Don't think of how and when, think of Baba.

"But better even than this, and safer than this, is to merge in my orders, to do as I say. That is, all should obey instantly."

Here someone asked: What if we want to obey, but, for some reason are not able to do so physically or mentally? Baba replied:

"If you want to obey, then it is not disobedience. If, for instance, I say 'fly' and you cannot, it is not disobedience, but you must try to 'fly'! Not say 'I cannot', but just try.

"There are three types of obedience:

1) The first kind is all faith: complete, blind obedience.

2) The second kind is literal obedience, but not blind.

3) The third kind is obedience with common sense and discrimination, still not with complete faith or conviction. The first type is very rare. The second type is found among more, but only a few more.

"Dabakay khan means, colloquially, 'eat heartily'. Literally translated, it would mean 'eat after pressing (the food)'.

"Here is an example of literal obedience, type 2, which is not yet complete obedience: Once Dr. Ghani, while in Manzil-i-Meem in 1922, after having just eaten his meal, was given some food to eat by me, and I told him Dabakay khan. (eat more.) He had already eaten so much he could not eat any more. Now dabakay has two meanings. The one, to 'eat heartily', the other, ‘to press' (such as dahl and rice together); so Dr. Ghani interpreted it the second way. He was full. He knew I meant 'to eat more', but he took the other meaning and started pressing the dahl and rice. He obeyed literally, but not spiritually, as I wanted him to eat, and he knew this.

"Hafiz says: 'If you are the chosen one, don't say 'why and wherefore', but only obey the word of the Master with heart and soul.'

“It is very difficult. In one sense it is easy to obey, but to do it with heart and soul is difficult. Is this clear? For example, If I say to Adi, 'Kill your father', he will kill him. That is easy, but he won't be happy to do it, but he will kill him. Complete obedience (type 1) is rare, — very rare.

"If I tell Malcolm, 'Kill Jean', if he has full faith he will do it, but not willingly. There is a difference. Complete blind obedience, the outcome of complete faith, is very, very rare."

The incident of birth is common to all life on earth. Unlike other living creatures which are born insignificantly, live an involuntary life and die an uncertain death, physical birth of human beings connotes an important and, if they are extra circumspect about it, perhaps a final stage of their evolutionary progress. Here-onwards they no longer are