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

THE SAHAWAS 327Within the head as such, the hairs, though innumerable, have no value, because even when all the hairfalls off; the head, though bald, remains. Whatever value attached to the hair is but decorative. The hairmay help to make the head appear attractive and may create a feeling of self-satisfaction; but hairs, as such,have no value when compared with the head upon which they appear and disappear.One individual mind that generates thoughts innumerable may be compared with the head that has agrowth of hairs, also innumerable.One individual mind is capable of containing, emanating and absorbing any number of thoughts. Energyand all matter are the outcome of mind itself.To understand the all-importance of God, who is infinite reality: let this all-importance be comparedwith the importance of mind; and the importance of creation be compared with the hair upon the head.I tell you that God is infinitely all-important when compared with the Cosmos, which has no value otherthan that of the hair upon one's head - the hair that lures one and that creates illusory self-satisfaction.Real Birth and Real DeathThere is one real birth and one real death. You are born once and you really die only once. What is thereal birth?It is the birth of a 'drop' in the Ocean of Reality. What is meant by the birth of a 'drop' in the Ocean ofReality? It is the advent of individuality, born of individuality through a glimmer of the first most-finiteconsciousness, which transfixed cognizance of limitation into the Unlimited.What is meant by the real death?It is consciousness getting free of all limitations. Freedom from all limitations is real death; it is reallythe death of all limitations: it is liberation. In between the real birth and the real death, there is no suchreality as the so-called births and deaths.What happens in the intermediate stage known as births and deaths is that the limitations ofconsciousness gradually wear off until consciousness is free of limitations. Ultimately, consciousness,totally free of limitations, experiences the unlimited reality eternally. Real dying is equal to real living.Therefore I stress: Die for God and you will live as God.Baba commented: "You are first a child, then grow old and drop the body, but you never die and neverwere born. In the East, Vedantists