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

THE FINAL DECLARATION 285Kaikobad to love Baba because he has had a glimpse. There is one thing greater than love, it is obedience.There is one thing greater than obedience, it is surrender. None has surrendered to me as he ought. Youmay surrender wealth, life, body and all, but not your mind. When mind is surrendered, what is there?There is Baba."Another story was told of a well-dressed man who came to Baba years ago. He started to weep and said,'For forty years I am in search of God. I do meditations; now I come to you'. Baba replied, 'If you obey meI will give you God-realization. What about obeying?' 'I will cut off my head', said the man, 'and lay it atyour feet.' 'You need not cut off your head, but be stark naked and walk about Ahmednagar.' The manreplied, 'Baba, that is very difficult, for I was brought up there. I know many people. What will they say?'Baba said, 'If you cannot do this, why talk of cutting off your head?' Among the remarks Baba made atdifferent times during the course of the sahawas were the following:"After I drop this body, thousands upon thousands of people will come. So age after age the same thing isrepeated. No sooner do I drop the body than people come to the tomb. When I go to give darshanthousands of people flock around me. What is the use? If I am great, greatness does not consist incollecting crowds around me. What I want is a little love from you."I hate the words sadhu and buddha. Why use them?"I myself am eternally free. In you I am bound."There are three kinds of seekers (Jignasu): 1. One who says: 'I know God is within me, and I have toseek and find him.' But he has no courage and his rebirths continue. 2. One who says: 'I know God iswithin me, and I have to seek and find him within.' He has courage, plunges into the river and is drowned.He feels he has no need of a Master. 3. One who says: 'I know God is within me, and I have to seek andfind him within myself.' He has courage and obeys the Master. If the Master says 'Drown yourself', he willthrow himself into the river, but the Master saves him, for he is there."Every individual here and elsewhere is the same one, ever-indivisible God. I say this because I amresponsible for the whole creation. If I am not here then not only will you not be here, but the wholecreation with its gross, subtle and mental spheres will not be. In short, everything exists because I exist."In your case also the whole of creation exists because you exist. When you sleep soundly then for youeverything vanishes and is