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

316 THE GOD-MANI am the Ancient One, the One residing in every heart. Therefore, love others, make others happy, serveothers, even at discomfort to yourself; this is to love me. I suffer for the whole universe. I must sufferinfinitely; unless I suffered how could I ask my lovers to suffer for others? I am One with all on everylevel: I am One with all on every plane of consciousness: and I am beyond all planes of consciousness.Baba made this comment after the reading:"Have you heard of the two lovers, Majnu and Leila? They had human love at its height.Majnu was at a great distance from Leila, always trying to love her and repeating her name wherever hewent. But Leila was at some other place. One day a thorn went into Majnu's foot; blood came out. At thevery same moment Leila felt a shock and blood trickled from her foot. Even such human love falls short ofDivine Love. Human Love at its zenith is Ishqa-e-Mejazi: Divine Love is Ishqa-e-Haqiqa. His whole lifewas Leila; he saw Leila in everyone. Of course he was not careful of his clothes, health, food. He roamedabout always thinking of her. Then he met a spiritual Master sitting under a tree. The Master called him,saying, 'If you had tried to love God as intensely as you love Leila, you would have seen God everywhere,in everything'. Majnu answered, 'I am not after God, I am after Leila, I see her in all'. The Master calledhim, embraced him, and in an instant Majnu had the experience of God everywhere. Then be started to cry'Anal Haq!' or 'I am God', instead of Leila."Then followed the discourse on:GodIn the sub-human stage, the consciousness of false self or false'!', which is very slight, provides scopefor evolution. In the human form the evolution of consciousness is completed and the consciousnessbecomes full. Love comes into play actively for the first time. As love plays the part more actively andfully, the false T begins to get consumed more and more. Eventually, when love is at its zenith, the false Tgets totally consumed; this results in consummation of both lover and love at the altar of the Beloved.Neither does the lover remain in love, nor does love reign supreme over the lover: the goal is attained. TheBeloved is supreme over his self: there is nothing except the Beloved: everything else is consumed.