The Everything and the Nothing

Maya the Master-Illusionist who produces seemingly existent worlds out of Nothing, will perform its master trick of making everything including my health, energy, words and promises apparently go against me; and my lovers' faith and trust in me will be tested to their full extent. But Maya is powerless to go against my Work—for Maya itself is the means by which I bring about the results of my Work. Being the instrument for the fulfillment of my Work, Maya, in fact, actually does its utmost to bring about the utmost results of this Work. Maya is the infinite shadow of God's infinity, and so, having no existence except in non-existence, must naturally give way to the one and only Reality which is God. And then God manifests in His Glory. When the sun appears over the horizon the shadow projected by an object is much bigger than the object, but when the sun is directly overhead the shadow is under the feet as it were of the object. In my present phase of helpless...

                                  Knowledge The Sadguru has not to know, He knows. He knows that there is nothing to know.                                                                           Purposes There are some who exist to hate others, be jealous of others and make others unhappy; and there are some who exist to love others and make others happy. One who has become One with God, exists for all, both good and bad. And to become One with God, one has not to renounce anything but one's own self.                                      Meaning                   ...

As the Highest of the High I am the Wisest of the Wise, yet I have allowed myself to perform an act more foolish than any fool ever would. What is this foolish act of mine? Creating the CREATION. Creation is really a mighty joke, but the laugh is at my own expense—and now the jest is proving a burden on my chest. Sometimes I am so tired I feel like going to sleep for 700 years. To the fool a foolish act is most natural and effortless. But can you imagine the Most Wise exerting himself and stretching out to perform an act which is opposite to his attribute of Wisdom! That is why I say you can have no idea of what I mean when I say I am tired—it is beyond human understanding.

Duality implies separateness. Separateness causes fear. Fear makes worry. The way of Oneness is the way to happiness; the way of manyness is the way to worry. I am the one who has no second so I am eternally happy. You are separate from your Self, so you always worry. To you, what you see is absolutely real; to me it is absolutely false. I alone am Real and my will governs the cosmic illusion. It is the truth when I say that the waves do not roll and the leaves do not move without my will. The moment the intensity of your faith in my will reaches its height you say goodbye to worry forever. Then, all that you suffered and enjoyed in the past, together with all that you may experience in the future, will be to you the most loving and spontaneous expression of my will; and nothing will ever be able to cause you worry again. Live more and more in the Present which is ever beautiful and stretches away beyond the limits of the past and the future. If at all you must worry...

Being the highest and the lowest I manifest Knowledge and assume ignorance at the same time. Even though I know a certain thing will happen within a month, I may chalk out plans as if it was not to occur for years. Again, knowing that an event will not take place for years, I appear to expect it to happen shortly. In Dnyan (Knowledge) there is Adnyan (Non-knowledge or Ignorance). But in Adnyan there cannot be Dnyan. Having all knowledge on the highest level, I can assume full ignorance on your level. In fact I am Infinite Knowledge, and as such I know what is to happen even after hundreds of years, yet I profess ignorance while I am on your level. Even on the gross plane and in ordinary circumstances knowledge and ignorance can be manifested simultaneously. For instance, you say: I do not know how to swim. This implies that you know that you do not know how to swim. Were you not to know you do not know, you could not have had this understanding. This is 'knowledge...

How do I know everything? The nature of the infinitely complicated phenomenon—the Universe—is infinitely simple. But to know and understand this is infinitely difficult. When you know what Universal Mind, Universal Energy and Universal Body are and what their relation is to individual mind, individual energy and individual body you will understand how the Perfect Master knows everything. This all-comprehensive Knowledge is obtained in a flash. But to know everything in a flash takes an eternity in the illusion of time while you gradually die to your self. This dying to your self means completely losing yourself to God to find your Self as God. This dying to your false self is no easy task; raising a corpse to life is child's play compared to it.

God's Imagination begets Universal Mind, Universal Energy and Universal Body in which are contained the individual minds, individual energies and individual bodies of every thing and being in Creation. Universal Mind, Universal Energy and Universal body are because of the existence of God's Imagination which exists as Non-existence within the Infinite Eternal and All-pervading EXISTENCE (God). Individual minds, individual energies and individual bodies have no existence in themselves, but exist only as effects in existing Nonexistence. In my universal Body are contained all the gross bodies of all the innumerable beings and things in Creation. Individual subtle bodies (energies) and mental bodies (minds) are part of my Universal Energy and Universal Mind. In both Universal Energy and Universal Mind there are no divisions. Distance between a drop here and a drop there in the ocean makes no difference to each drop's relation to the ocean. Any drop within the ...

There cannot be anything hidden from the One who is everywhere present, for He is everywhere. And it naturally follows that when there cannot be anything hidden from this One He must also be All-Knowing, knowing everything. The infinite-Knowing is 'seeing' everything at one and the same time, and seeing it NOW. It is that Knowledge which does not begin and does not end; which is indivisible and continuous, and to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be subtracted. It is that Knowledge which makes God at this moment know that which He knew when it occurred countless aeons ago, and makes Him know that which will occur countless aeons hence; that Knowledge which makes everything known to God simultaneously and NOW. It is the Knowledge of the Perfect Masters and the Avatar. In terms simpler to you it means that which you as individuals know at this moment I knew aeons ago, and what you individuals in ages to come will be knowing at a particular mo...

My unique experience of the Beyond State is so unique that I simultaneously experience being everything and beyond everything. I am the song, its words and its melody, and I am the singer. I am the musical instruments and the players and the listeners. And on your level I explain to you the meaning of what I, the singer, sing.

Believe that I am the Ancient One. Do not doubt that for a moment. There is no possibility of my being anyone else. I am not this body that you see. It is only a coat I put on when I visit you. I am Infinite Consciousness. I sit with you, play and laugh with you; but simultaneously I am working on all planes of existence. Before me are saints and perfect saints and masters of the earlier stages of the spiritual path. They are all different forms of me. I am the Root of every one and every thing. An infinite number of branches spread out from me. I work through, and suffer in and for, each one of you. My bliss and my infinite sense of humour sustain me in my suffering. The amusing incidents that arise at the expense of none lighten my burden. Think of me; remain cheerful in all your trials and I am with you helping you.

The First Song of the Infinite is the beginning of Creation. It brings about the apparent descent of the Infinite into the domain of multiple duality. Duality implies unending sufferings. I am eternally happy for I know that I am the Infinite One. I alone exist; there is nothing besides me; all else is Illusion. Simultaneously, I suffer eternally. I, as myself, am free. But in you, as you, I get myself bound. I knowingly suffer through you, to make you free from bindings. This is my crucifixion. Your experience of suffering is because of sheer ignorance; and your ignorance is my suffering. You are sitting here before me, each one asserting his separate existence from the other. You come from different levels of society. You possess varied physical and mental aptitudes and abilities. Through the ego-mind you have become individualized, and the One Indivisible Soul is infinitely divided. But the Soul never becomes divided, it ever remains One and the Same. You are really...

Your love and faith has drawn you from hundreds of miles to be with me for a few hours. Although I sent you word that you should not ask me any questions I know that some of you are just waiting for the opportunity to ask some. It is the nature of the mind to go on asking. But love asks no questions; it seeks nothing but the will of the Beloved. Mind wants to know that which is beyond mind. To know that which is beyond mind, mind must go—vanish, leaving no vestige of itself behind. The humour of it is, the mind, which is finite, wants to retain itself and yet know Truth, which is infinite. This is the position of those who seek Truth through intellect. Few grasp this fact, and so most grope and grapple in vain. It is easy to ask questions, but it needs past preparation to grasp what I explain. Those who have the authority to ask and the capacity to understand do not ask. They understand that God is un-understandable and beyond the reach of the questioning mind. Every o...

The moment you try to understand God rather than love Him you begin to misunderstand Him, and your ignorance feeds your ego. Mind cannot reach that which is beyond it. God is infinite and beyond the reach of Mind. The Divine Will that brought forth this infinite Illusion expresses itself in all its purity through me to make you turn away from Illusion towards God-consciousness. Every moment I respond to the whole of creation. My response, being divine, is wholly from love. The many faces of that one response as you see them, are but the reflections of your manymirrored mind. You view and judge my actions from your level of understanding and attempt to differentiate them in the light of your own limited standards of values. And so you misinterpret the different shades of my response to different people. Being unlimited I am simultaneously on all levels of consciousness; and, as such, in my response I differentiate one from the other solely in the light of their impressi...

Let your heart be pure. Do not act outwardly what you are not inwardly. Be absolutely honest. God is Infinite Honesty. Do not pose as being pious, because God is everywhere. God cannot be fooled—so why pose as something you are not? I do not want anything else from you but the gift of your obedience. Give me that and you will free yourself from the bondage of ignorance.

I am God - God the Beyond and God in human form. I draw you ever closer to me by giving you frequent occasions of my companionship. But familiarity often makes you forget that I am God. I know all that happens and will happen. Whatever happens does not happen without my will. Knowingly I allow things to happen in their natural course. All I ask of you is that you love me most and obey me at all times. Knowing that it is impossible for you to obey me as you should, I help you to carry out wholeheartedly what I give you to do by repeatedly bringing to you the importance of obedience. Always do what I want, instead of wanting me to want what you want. Most of you want me to want what you want; and when you succeed in getting me to agree to what you want you are delighted and even tell others that that is what I want! For example, one of you brings a youth to me saying, Baba, this is so and so. He is a double graduate and would be an excellent match for my daughter who is...

He who has eyes but does not see, He who has ears but does not hear, He who has a tongue but does not speak, He can see Me as I should be seen, and can know Me as I should be known. This does not mean that you should become inactive. On the contrary it means that you should be constantly alert towards the expressive Beauty of the All-pervading Beloved. On this Hafiz has said, If you want your Beloved to be present, do not absent yourself for one moment from His Presence. The Perfect Master is in everything, and is the Centre of everything. Every one and every thing is therefore equidistant from Him. Though, owing to our own limitations, He appears outwardly to be present at only one place at a time, He is on every plane of consciousness at one and the same time. To see Him as He is, is to see God. So beware lest when the divine Beloved knocks at the door of your heart He finds you absent.

Love is such that the lover needs no asking to do anything.                                                * * * "By loving, your whole being will be changed and your life will end in Freedom."                                                * * * "The gift of love is a rare gift of God, and rarely is one capable of receiving it."                                                * * * "God is infinitely more vital to your existence than your breath which is your very life. Ordinarily, life is associated with breath; but you only become aware of this when breath is restricted through exertion, and you only completely realize ...

As a rule an introduction is required between people who do not know one another. Such introduction is not felt to be necessary when there is a give and take of love between persons, for hearts need no introduction. An affinity can be felt between strangers, a feeling of having known one another before. This feeling is because of their connections in previous lives. No one requires an introduction to me, for no one is a stranger to me. However, I am a stranger to most, and those coming and remaining in my presence do not do so without introduction. As a matter of fact, they have come with many introductions - for many times in previous lives have they been introduced to me and have gone away and forgotten me and met me again. All these introductions are their introduction to me this time.

22. Types of Knowledge Knowledge is of three types: 1. Material Knowledge (Bahaya Dnyan) of the external: comprises knowledge pertaining to worldly matters (affairs of the world), gained naturally or acquired through study. This knowing is ignorance of Ignorance. 2. Spiritual Knowledge (Antar Dnyan) of the internal: comprises the spiritual experiences of the Subtle Planes and of the Mental Planes. Experiencing the Subtle Planes is ignorance of Knowledge. Experiencing the Mental Planes is knowledge of Ignorance. The inner experiences of the Subtle Planes may be said to be divine hallucination; while the inner experiences of the Mental Planes may be said to be a spiritual nightmare of longing for Union with God. Inner experiences end in Divine Awakening.     3. Divine Knowledge (Brahma Dnyan) of Godhood: is God's own Infinite Knowledge. This is knowledge of the Knowledge. Bahaya Dnyan is mastered by a very few. Antar Dnyan is maste...

21. Imparting of Knowledge Knowledge is imparted in two ways—indirectly and directly. There are two steps in the imparting of indirect Knowledge and two different ways in imparting direct Knowledge. In order to make a clear picture let us liken gross-consciousness of the ordinary human-being to remote village-life, and God consciousness of the realized-being to life in New York, and the six states of involution of consciousness to six halts or ports of call between the two places. If you as a villager go to New York and remain there absorbed in the life of the city, you will not be able to tell those who have stayed in the village about your experience. But if you return to the village with your new knowledge, and, at the same time, remember the speech and ways of the villagers, you will be able to describe to them what you have seen and experienced, and so encourage some of them to make the journey also. But you cannot sustain their interest indefinitely by description alone, so, t...