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110 THE PATH OF LOVE
On Baba’s Work
Baba is the Avatar of the Age and the greatest work anyone
can do is to love Baba as Baba ought to be loved. He alone who
can love Baba does Baba’s work. What is Baba’s work It is to tell
people who Baba is and that Baba says one should love all, slander
none, have a pure heart and not make others suffer for one’s
own comfort and pleasure. If Baba’s workers themselves lack
these qualities, how can they tell others of what Baba says, and
work as Baba’s workers On the contrary, such workers have no
share in doing Baba’s work. They are a burden in Baba’s work.
There are two types of workers. There is one who tells people
who Baba is and what Baba says, and himself lives and acts
as I want my worker to be in life. There is another, who also loves
me, in his own way, and lacks the qualities desired by me. When
such a one, instead of doing my work haphazardly, confesses his
incapacity to others, and tells them what I want them to do,
there is no binding created for the workers and no burden felt by
me on behalf of such a worker. The worker should be bold and
candid enough to admit and try to overcome his weaknesses
before he attempts to preach what Baba says.
In doing Baba’s work there is one great difficulty. The
workers have love for Baba, no doubt, but at the same time they
have their characteristic weaknesses. The great difficulty resides
in the expression of one’s ego-the feeling of self-importance by
which one is possessed, despite one’s best efforts to lose it. The
heart is for weakening the ego, but the mind is for strengthening
it. The mind gains a sense of greatness in doing Baba’s work.
There is no escaping this. What is to be done then Try to be