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

THE FIRST TEN YEARS 37consciousness of their body. They cannot impart knowledge to others and show what Truth is."On the same day in the evening Baba, in the course of a discourse on spiritual light,observed:"There is, besides our two external eyes, one internal eye. This internal eye, which may becalled the spiritual eye, really sees through the two external eyes, and is located between thetwo eyebrows. Saints see God with the internal eye and the world with the external eyes."On one occasion Baba, seeing that a few of his disciples were dejected, made the followingamong other statements:"One generally passes through three stages in the spiritual life. The first is burningenthusiasm, when the aspirant is imbued with the keen desire of seeing and experiencing theunknown. The second is disappointment, the third divine bliss. The second stage, in whichyou are at present, is very long. Since you cannot escape from it or remedy it, you must putup with it cheerfully. Don't leave me in any case."At another time he said:"Realization is the same for all. The differences among Prophets and Perfect Masters lie notin the power, but in the authority to use it. That which is given by a Perfect Master to hischargeman is not power, but the authority to use it. A Perfect Master, strictly speaking, givesnothing to anybody. He merely shows the treasure that is within him ..."No Perfect Master has authority to use his power after dropping his corporeal frame. Mindyou! he has the power, but not the authority to use it. Wherever you see the tomb of aSadguru, rest assured that there his power is. But if a devotee is benefited by worshippingthere, never for a moment believe that the Sadguru was the cause of his benefit. The devoteemay merely be said to have utilized the power and thereby brought a blessing upon himself. ASadguru can do good to others only so long as he lives in this gross world; after leaving hisbody he cannot make anybody cross a single plane, and cannot wipe out anybody's sanskaras;though to those of his followers who call upon his infinite existence, his infinite state rendershelp according to the devotion behind the call."