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

Part II Chapter 7THE WORK'God and God alone'(1)Although I have divided this book into two parts and separate chapters, it has been for convenience only.Baba's life and activities are one in a more complete sense than we are likely to find in any other man.Everything concerning him is directly related to everything else. The narrative shows that his is not a simplelife. His activities are worldwide, but unity pervades the whole from the first day to the present. Such singlemindednesswithout deviation, is astonishing: the explanation is that everything is for the Work.No one knows exactly what that Work is. When Baba fasts, or is among masts, or is in seclusion, when hetravels, when among crowds, whatever he is doing and wherever he is, he is 'working'. Observe him sittingon a chair during a darshan, or in the company of people when someone is speaking or when music is played,and one sees that while his attention is upon what is taking place, he is working: watch his fingers, and howalive is his entire body. That the Work is not the darshans or sahawas or the teaching is demonstrated by hislife; indeed, the best that can be said is that it is his life, not simply what he does or says. The Work is hisown, not shared with anyone, so that he does not need anyone, which is why he has no organization ormovement. That the Work is concerned with mankind, indeed with the cosmos, is indicated in his wordsabout the God-Man's responsibility for 'the control of the affairs of the whole universe'. We are in the darkabout the meaning of those words; but we need take no narrow view of them. We can think of the Work asbelonging to the dramatic action of God in the cosmos, the divine play, in which the protagonist is Godhimself in the likeness of man, the actors being not the great men or heroes but the souls of individual men,the great multitude of the unknown.