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

262 THE GOD-MANperformed the ceremonies, and kept the ashes according to their customs. I followed out what they wantedbecause of their great love. Nothing can stop what has to happen. I have to break my silence to manifest,and to drop this body. What is ordained must be. If people love God as I want them to do, my work isaccomplished...."On Friday Baba arrived at 10 a.m. on foot, pale and worn, but smiling. He said:"No more explanations today. It is the last day of my coming here. Today we will drink together. This isnot the Last Supper, but the Last Drink, and I am happy that at least from among you all no one will sellme, though someone has to do that job. My physical end is going to be a violent one. I am the Ancient One,and you will all love me more and more after my body is dropped, and will see me as I really am. Today Iwon't explain anything; what is there to explain?"You all say, 'Yes, Baba', but do not do."My ways are so unfathomable that sometimes I too cannot fathom them. If you had but a glimpse of meas I am, you would lose consciousness. Love me and you will be loving God. And God is to be lovedhonestly. The slightest hypocrisy or dishonesty keeps you far away from God. God our Beloved is herenow in you all, who knows what you will think tomorrow. He is all knowledge, and when we love himhonestly he becomes one with us. It is not that we have to become one with him, but he becomes one withus. My last message to you, dear ones, is to love God, and you will find I am one with God."There was an interval for individual interviews during the morning. On returning, Baba looked at aphotograph of himself as a young man and said, 'I love him very much'. He sent for the drinks. He said thepoor have little food, and those at Assam and elsewhere suffer from the floods. 'I am in all, and I am inEternal Bliss, because of God, and in everlasting suffering, through these souls. I want to make people notonly food-minded, but God-minded. That is why I have called these meetings.' He said:"I am infinitely restless, and infinitely at peace simultaneously."Jesus, being God and omnipotent, allowed himself to be helpless, humiliated and crucified.He knew it all, because he had planned it all, long ago, and he did it for all. But to have the right results, hehad to experience the helplessness and suffering. Do not think that because he was all-powerful, he did notsuffer the humiliation and the crucifixion, or it would not have had the desired effect. Some people think