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

362 THE GOD-MANocean as the ocean itself. Every bubble is an appearance of separateness. The bubble of the mind does notknow that it is the ocean until the bubble bursts.Bliss is God's original state. Power is God's existence. Knowledge is God's duty.To know God in his infinite contradictions is to become conscious of his consciousness of hisunconscious .... To achieve the God-state do absolutely nothing while doing everything .... To be infinitelyconscious you must consciously lose consciousness of yourself.Long for union with God until you go beyond longing for union and long only for the will of belovedGod. Complete forgetfulness of self is to forget even that you have forgotten.There are different ways of seeing God. (1) Meditation, which is a very long process, only one in amillion sees God through meditation, and even that is not being one with God. (2) The grace of a PerfectMaster. The simplest way is to leave all and follow Baba, which does not mean to leave your family andwork. It is not your love for me that has brought you here, but my love for you. One cannot do it oneself,if one has the will one gets the grace.If one had one hundred per cent physical love it would be good, but no one has it. Divine Love is thegift of God. The gift is in the depth of the ocean. You must learn to swim and to dive to reach the pearl.Eruch says 'Obedience is a terrible affair. I thought it easy to love and obey, but I found I could not doit.'Hafiz says:When I began to love God I thought I had fallen into the ocean.I did not know I was only on the beach.Only when I entered the water and was tossed in the waves:Oh God, why did I crave for you? What is this tossing fromocean to shore?Baba got one of his Persian disciples to recite some verses of Hafiz in Persian with translations, for allthe well-known translations of Hafiz, he said, do no justice to the poet. He then went on:Space is the gulf between imagination and reality. Involution of consciousness fills this gulf. Time is theinterval between your most-first imagination and your most-last imagination. Eternally it is always Now.Where imagination ends God Is. Can you follow this? Baba cannot.Baba is telling us about consciousness and we watch an ant upon the