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

Part I, Chapter 6THE FREE LIFE1952-1953What emerged from manonash was named by Baba his 'Complicated Free Life', in which'bindings were to dominate freedom'; this continued until10 July 1952, when it was fo11owedby the 'Full Free Life', in which 'freedom would dominate bindings'; on 15 November therestarted the 'Fiery Free Life', in which 'freedom and bindings would by the grace of God bemerged into the Divine Life'.To prepare for the Fiery Free Life, he sent Eruch and Pendu to visit places in India andPakistan. He said:"I am not concerned with reactions to me as an individual. They will be as various as thereare individual temperaments. My sole concern in the Fiery Free Life, will be with the DivineTruth of my realization, which I should like to share with those who seek it. The consumingof freedom and bindings (which is characteristic of the Fiery Free Life) means that there is acomplete blending of the God-state and the man-state, so that the one does not live throughopposition to the other, and there can be no question of the one encroaching upon the other."Spiritual freedom is essentially a positive state of conscious enjoyment of divinity. It doesnot have to maintain itself through the overcoming of any bindings, for these are not bindingsof the soul in its essence, but temporary bindings of the body and the mind, which can in noway curtail the Bliss, Power or Understanding of conscious Divinity. In other words, thebinding, to which the soul seems to be subject, tums out to be no binding in its true essence.The binding is only illusory. After the annihilation of the limited mind, the infiniteconsciousness of the soul, with all its Knowledge, Power and Bliss, remains unaffected by anyweaknesses or diseases to which the body may yield as a result of natural laws."The Perfect Ones, who retain normal consciousness and the body,