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

THE SAHAWAS 319The discourse then went on to provide examples of what had been said earlier:Baba commented:I. The Beyond-Beyond state of God may be compared with a child fast asleep in a cradle: it isan example of 'Unconscious Inaction'.II. The state of the God-realized person (not a Perfect Master) may be compared with a childwide awake but still in the cradle: this is an example of 'Conscious Inaction'.III. The state in between I & II may be compared with a child awake and out of the cradle: it isan example of 'Conscious Action.'IV. The state of Majzoob of 7th plane may be compared with a somnambulist: thesomnambulist walks about or performs other actions in sleep and is not aware of what hedoes in this state. Similarly the Majzoob of 7th plane does actions and is not conscious ofthem. His is 'Unconscious Action': he eats, drinks, speaks, etc. But all this is his'Unconscious Action'.V. The state of a Perfect Master may be compared with a child wide awake but inside thecradle that is continuously rocked by mankind. It is 'Conscious Active Inaction'. Inaction isbeing inside the cradle: and active inaction is the rocking of the cradle by others. God isConscious Inaction indeed. And the tranquillity of this 'Conscious Inaction' is so veryprofound that it gives God the attributes of Infinite Power, Infinite Knowledge and InfiniteBliss."This should be read two or three times to understand it; it is difficult. Hafiz has said, 'The universe andits affairs are nothing into nothing!' Our bondage is due to actions. Good action is a binding and bad actiona binding. One has to go beyond actions, then there is no binding. One cannot go beyond actions unlessone is in sound sleep because of impressions which need expression. Expression in tum creates actions,and actions create bindings. Don, when you sleep soundly, you are in the original state of God. There areno bindings, no actions. But past actions demand that you get up, so you start putting your impressionsinto action. The goal is to go to that original state of yours of inaction, but consciously. In sleep you areunconscious and there is unconscious inaction. How can you be free of actions? Again we fall back onlove. Love is the remedy. Not only in this incarnation but every time I come I stress that love is theremedy. We have seen the masts: they love me so intensely there is no occasion for sleeping, talking oreating. Don't