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

242 THE GOD-MANyou alternately wear and discard, and, all along, this false ego persists."Then comes a time when the impressions grow fainter and fainter, scarcer and scarcer.Eventually they become so faint that they fade away completely, and when impressions are not there,mind's functioning is stopped. The heart is now naked and pure, because there are no desires, no longings,no feelings; yet you are still there. Then the'!', void of all impressions, has no bindings, no limits. It nowexperiences that state which is above mind, the mind is no longer there. It experiences the Infinite OriginalState of Real T -ness. This ego is called the Real Ego, and just as with the false ego, Malcolm said, 'I amthis body - or I am this energy - or I am this mind' - now Malcolm says, 'I am God'."So there are the Natural Ego, the False Ego and the Real Ego. Only the pure in heart can see God. Thiswas what Purdom asked about - what being pure in heart means. Whatever I have explained will take younowhere, because how can one explain One whom the mind cannot grasp?"There is a bird of paradise which is said never to come to earth. Hafiz said: 'God is like the bird ofparadise. Don't try to snare him by spreading the net of thoughts. In that net you will find nothing butmind.' And so it is said, 'Only love, and God will be yours.' Not thinking, but love. So however much Imay explain, God cannot be explained; but if I should wish it in a split second you would see God and youwould know."Ramakrishna did not speak any language except Bengali. He could not read; he was what they callilliterate. Yet, in an instant, he gained All Knowledge. Flocks of very literate and learned people gatheredround him without understanding a thing he said. So love. The secret is, in a few words - when you arethere, God is not. The more you use the rational mind the less you understand, for you must be there, andwhen you are, God is not. So explanations and understandings mean you drive away God, instead ofdrawing him in. When you understand, you have not understood."My one and the same Beloved, it is said, appears in different guises and garbs, and with different names,and appears to be always different, yet he is one and the same Beloved."You have to become what you already are. You are God, but you must become God. Christ humiliatedhimself; God himself crucified himself; to teach this: through love, become what you already are."Emperor Janak, Sita's father, was also known to be a Perfect