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together at the Andhra meeting. I said that for Me, there is no need for Centers, for different places, nor different groups, with different heads or names. My center is the heart of every lover. Every lover with a heart that loves Baba is a center. The second point I would like to emphasize is that whoever wants to work spreading My message of love and truth, absolutely needs a central office and groups of workers who can function from that central office. There is always a need for a group to have a center. You can have many such centers, Myrtle Beach is such a center—and it stretches for many miles!

 

But there should be cooperation, harmony, and the group heads should not try to win over other members from one office to another. Why? What for? When all work for Baba? There should be harmony, cooperation. Ivy once said to Me that if I ordered it, she would just dissolve the Sufi order and have nothing to do with it, but I said 'no.' On the contrary. I gave her a charter to hold meetings, have an office, conduct affairs—which she does. I am the greatest Sufi of the past, present and future. I have ordered the Sufis to continue and I have also instructed John Bass to hold his group meetings on Mondays, and told Dana Field that he can have his own group to bring together as many new lovers as possible.

 

"There should be no competition. Each one, especially the group heads, should be an example to others— be humble as dust. One must become like dust to work for God. The ego should not be tickled about position and office, and say, 'I am a group head.' Those that work under certain group heads should not leave them. Under certain circumstances, one may change one's group, because all are doing My work; but that does not mean every worker should have his hand on both sides of the drum,' as we say in India. It also does not mean that people of one group should not be on harmonious terms with the other group . . . in fact, there should always be loving cooperation for My work.

 

"Ivy loves Me. She tells her Sufi group to love Me. John Bass tells his group to love Me. Everything comes to Me. Everything is as if said to Me. You should not gossip about each other; all should be friends. Ivy, you have written wonderful letters about John."

 

John said, "Especially since the book, God Speaks!" at which we laughed, as John had sold a tremendous number of books.

 

Ivy remonstrated: "That's unkind. Makes me sound like cupboard love!" She went on: "It's wrong to say that people should not come to Baba through isms.

 

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