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18 THE PATH OF LOVE
Suppose a couple has seven sons. It is natural for the father to
love those sons who are useful to him, who are healthy, intelligent,
brilliant – obviously, the father will remain pleased with
such sons. Now the six sons of this worldly father are healthy,
strong, intelligent and good in all respects; the seventh son is a
disabled weakling, innocent, simple and guileless (Bhola). The
father has no love for this seventh son and loves only his six sons.
But the mother loves her seventh son the most; more so, because
he is weak, sick, disabled, simple and guileless.
God is both the father and the mother in One. The
Avatars are Sons of the Father in the Beyond state. All past
Avataric periods witnessed the presence of the Avatar as the
healthy, bright, wise Son of God. All this means that the Avatar
always remained the Beloved Son of the Father. Note that the
Avatar always takes a male form and mingles with mankind as
a man.
Hitherto, God in the Beyond state did not have occasion
to play the part of God the mother. In this Avataric period, God
the Father is very pleased with me at my being infinitely bright,
wise, efficient and perfect in all respects (Ustad or “shrewd”) as
my Father wants me to be; and I am the beloved Son of my
Father. At the same time, in this form I am physically disabled.
In America, in 1952, I was injured on the left side of my physical
frame from leg to face. In India, in 1956, I injured my right
side from the head down to the leg. Besides being physically disabled
I am also infinitely simple and guileness (Bhola). Thus, I
am also the well-beloved Son of my God the Mother. So, in this
Incarnation of the Avatar, God has the occasion, as it were, to
play the part of both father and mother.