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

THE SAHAWAS 325of Khwaja, the guru of the age. The people come to Ajmer to pay homage to his shrine. The singer sings inpraise of Khwaja, that means he sings my praise. Another song is in praise of Muhammad: 'God's belovedking on earth in human form, who has found his own glory in all the flowers and birds.' It has a deepsignificance."Here the singer speaks of Nur, of the brilliant effulgence of God. One can't describe Nur. The brillianceof the sun is but the seventh shadow of God. The word khuda is used for God. So he tells of khuda whichis infinite effulgence. The singer tells of the infinite effulgence of God being contained in the human formas Muhammad, as Jesus Christ, as Baba. The infinite bottled up in human form. If one can understand thedepth of the words, one can appreciate the depth of what is being said, especially in Qawali: 'The God-Man is the ocean of Unity, and the saints are the pearls in the ocean'. Some records were fortunately leftbehind in Pimpalgaon, otherwise I should have had to explain every word! Qawali are not religious, butspiritual songs. They are devotional songs, and have nothing to do with religion. Like the Christianmystics, each one of whom was my gem, each was a lover of God. Jesus was their Beloved, and they didnothing but love their Beloved. They were burning with love that burned their sins to ashes."Here the singer sings of the Qutub of that age. Do you all know what Qutub means? He is the PerfectMaster, the pivot, the centre of the whole universe. Sadguru and God-Man. Have you learned all theseterms? The singer says: 'I need not go begging anywhere from anyone. If anyone can give me anything itis the Qutub. So I fall at his feet and beg for nothing.' We hear the word mangna; it means to ask, to beg.He says, 'I don't want to ask or beg anything from God because Qutub has divine knowledge and will giveme anything, including God'. He says, 'Ask anything from the Qutub and he will give it to you, but be wiseand ask him for God, because he is the only one who can give Union with God'."This side is about the God-Man, the one that is expected. When he comes all are blind to it.None can know about it. But he brings with him a thick cloud of compassion that bursts and gives ashower of compassion. All expect him - men, winds, clouds, trees, all - but none sees him, all are blind tohim, but he showers his love and compassion on all beings and things."In the afternoon he called two groups of women to receive prasad, the first were about twenty whoassembled in the living room of