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

338 THE GOD-MAN'Should I leave the bam, Harry?' Harry: 'Baba, aren't you capable of making up your mind yourself?''Ben, what do you suggest?' 'Either way you wish', Ben replied. Harold Rudd rose and told a funny story.Ivy Duce asked if she could display the chart. No, said Baba. One or two others who wanted to askquestions, were stopped by Baba. He said:"Let us just take as an example that the sun is God. The sun is not God, it is gas. Let us say, it is God:infinite power, infinite bliss, infinite knowledge. It is all there in the sun. Those on the mental sphere arenear the sun and they directly receive the rays of the sun. Those in the subtle world are a bit further off.The rays of knowledge and bliss are filtered through the mental sphere and only the residue is received bythose in the subtle sphere. The gross world is very far off. It is so thick, so crude. Only the last traces ofinfinite bliss and knowledge come through to the gross world. Those in the subtle plane receive less of myrays. Those on the gross plane receive just a trace of my infinite power, bliss, and knowledge. In themental plane rays of infinite knowledge are received directly and those on this plane know the minds andthoughts of everyone. The rays of infinite knowledge when they strike on the mental plane are receiveddirectly by the saints, Walis. The knowledge is now converted into knowing the thoughts of gross andsubtle minds. In the sun, infinite knowledge knows everything as God."In the mental plane, rays of that infinite knowledge make known the minds of all. When they percolateto the subtle, those on the subtle planes know the mind of those who are associated with them. The sameinfinite knowledge from the sun, coming through the mental, subtle, and striking the gross, gives mind,intelligence, the power of reason, logic and all that is associated with the mind. So this gross human mindwhich is so powerful and able to think and act, to invent so many things, that is able to imagine anything -is really nothing but a trickle of that infinite knowledge of the sun."Now no more! It is already giving me a headache. Ben says, 'Baba, relax!' [Ben did not say anything.]Beryl, see: This gross human mind which can invent, imagine, think anything, can't know the minds ofothers. But the mentally conscious human mind can know the minds of all. It is so powerful, it can evenraise from the dead a body that has been dust for years. It has happened before. This power that is receivedis the rays of the Supreme All-Power that is the sun, is God. Here rays from the sun can raise the dead;and I repeat, the mental, subtle, gross worlds are all phenomena, illusion. There is no reality but God. All