THE GOD-MAN The Life, Journeys and Work of Meher Baba with an ...

194 THE GOD-MANThat day Baba was full of weakness, experiencing utter hopelessness of spirit, mind andbody. He felt himself utterly unworthy of the love, service and devotion of all those both inthe East and the West who place their faith in him. He therefore had these words spoken forhim when bowing down before a second poor man:"O God, by bowing down to this man, I bow down to these living ones."He asked all his followers throughout the wor1d to repeat wholeheartedly for half an houreach day, from 29 December to 16 February 1952 any one of the names of God: Parsee:Ahuramazda; lrani: Yazdan; Muslim: Allah; Hindu: Parabrahma; Christian: God the Father,God the Son, God the Holy Ghost; all other religions the name of God as used by them.On the last day of the year when Baba's dhuni was lighted in the evening at 7 p.m., he hadthe following read out:"Oh Source of Infinite Knowledge, Almighty God! You know that I did all that was humanlypossible in this ordinary state, and I leave the result to your will and sanction. For itsfulfilment may the moment, the hour, the day, the month, the year and the age be as you havedecreed."From this moment you must guide me to declare in all truth by 16 February 1952 what youhave decided."From now on I free myself from the external religious ceremonies that I have observedduring the New Life and the manonash period."He then dictated the fo11owing statement:"The One All-pervading, All-comprehending, All-powerful God, who is the Self of ourselves, and besides whom nothing is real, has helped me and guided me during the manonashperiod of my work, and now makes me to dictate to you the following:"To try to understand with the mind that which the mind can never understand, is futile; andto try to express by sounds of language and in forms of words the transcendent state of thesoul, is even more futile. All that can be said, and has been said, and will be said, by thosewho live and experience that state, is that when the false self is lost the Real Self is found; thatthe birth of the Real can follow only the death of the false; and that dying to ourselves - thetrue death which ends all dying - is the only way to perpetual life. This means that when themind with