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

364 THE GOD-MANThroughout the years I have been giving many messages and discourses. Today I simply want to tellyou who are gathered here in my love to shut the ears of your minds and open the ears of your hearts tohear my Word when I utter it.Do not seek my Blessing which is always with you, but long for the day when my Grace will descendon all who love me. Most Blessed are they who do not even long for my Grace, but simply seek to do myWill.The Master's Prayer was recited in English by the blind Harry Kenmore, but not translated.Baba said: 'May my love make you feel one day that God is in everyone.'Then all present were invited to come to Baba putting their hands on his knees, when he touched them.At this moment the rain started again in an immense downpour. Baba and those with him on the platformwere protected, but everyone else, including all the Westerners and Easterners, was soaked. This did notbreak up the gathering in the very least. Men and women came in turn for two hours, which must havebeen extremely exhausting for Baba, because it was obvious that he was giving himself continuously. Therain ceased after about half an hour, but dripped upon those present for some time. After five o'clock theproceedings ended with the singing on the platform by Poona devotees of Baba's arti, with musicalinstruments and lights, an impressive ceremony.The Westerners met on Friday November 2nd, when a diagram was displayed of the four journeys frominfinite God to infinite God, and commented upon by Baba. In particular, he asked everyone to understandthat the gross, subtle and mental spheres are not separate as shown in the diagram. 'There is a gulf', he said,'between the mental world and the world of Reality in which man knows God and as Man-God becomesGod and abides in him. It is most difficult to enter upon the inner journey.'Eruch then read the brief discourse on 'The Four Journeys', the substance of which was as follows:God is infinite, his Shadow is also infinite. In his Shadow is contained Infinite Space in which is theInfinite Gross Sphere which contains the Creation that issues from the Point of Finiteness. In the Creationare millions of galaxies, the centre of which is the planet we know as our earth. In the galaxies there aredeveloped life forms, and in some planets evolution is completed and human beings exist. But only on