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

322 THE GOD-MANThe so many deaths during the one whole life, beginning from the evolution of consciousness to the endof the involution of consciousness, are like so many sleeps during one lifetime.One who lives for himself is truly dead and one who dies for God is truly alive. Baba extended what hehad said the day before:"How God is beyond imagination I will explain in a few words. God has no beginning. Can you imaginewhen God was not? Suppose your imagination takes you as far back as millions and trillions of years, andthe answer is still: God was. But what was before God? And again the answer is: God was. So, cananybody imagine what was before God? Or how it all began? Even imagination cannot carry us to anyidea of how God began - how everything began. To think of having no beginning cannot be imagined.There is no beginning. And before God was? The same answer: God was. Now, in illusion you will findyourself getting a beginning. And where there is a beginning, there will be an end. So you, who areexperiencing illusion, how can you imagine that which has no beginning and no end? Yet you as yourself,as a drop of your own infinite ocean, have no beginning and no end. You have this form. You take birth.You have a beginning as a drop: you grow, you die, you end. You begin and end in illusion. You, asbodies, have a beginning and an end. You are the Infinite One, but as a body you have beginning and end;as the Infinite Ocean - of which you are the drop as body - there is no beginning and no end."To experience your real Self is the goal. You are and you will ever be. There is no one else but You.Instantly, in a flash, you will know everything, including why you have no beginning and no end. But thisknowing will have nothing to do with mind, reason, logic. It is beyond mind. You know the answer toeverything, you know that nothing has happened and nothing will ever happen. You then experience bliss,you become all-powerful, all-knowing."A discourse was read on:OmnipresenceThere cannot be anything hidden from One who is Omnipresent. And as there cannot be hidden anythingfrom such a One, he must be omniscient. He is all-knowing, knowing everything.