신의 음악 - 메허 바바

When their turn came to face him, Baba greeted them. Without consciously knowing why, the girl looked at the radiant Being before her and suddenly knelt at his feet and wept. The young man knelt down, too, no doubt wondering what was happening to them. Baba patted them both and made them sit on the floor beside him throughout the rest of the afternoon.

Two young homosexuals, one a well-known painter and the other a dancer, were also in the queue. Both were good friends of Delia who had persuaded them to come. As they approached Baba they began to have misgivings, wondering if Baba was going to censure them. They considered leaving but decided to stay. As they apprehensively came before him, Baba looked at them, threw up his hands and gestured, "Chums!" They were so relieved, they nearly leapt forward and hugged Baba!

Bill Pitts, 43, had first heard of Baba from Mrs. Gillingham, a psychic healer and medium. But before he came she warned him, "Bill, be very careful. Do not catch Meher Baba's eyes completely because he might blind you!" Consequently, when Bill's turn came to meet Baba, he closed his eyes and looked down! Only after a few moments did curiosity get the better of him. He carefully opened his eyes and quickly stole a glance at Baba. Baba told Will, "Look after him and take him under your care."

Madam Ida Polli also attended the reception. Her first contact with Baba was mystical. She was managing an antique shop in central London in 1931, in the district called Seven Dials. One morning in her shop, she had a vision. She saw what she took to be the face of Christ. He had tears in his eyes. Flabbergasted, she raised her hands to her face, and in so doing, the vision disappeared. The next moment, she glanced through the shop window, and passing along on the far side of the street she noticed the person of her vision with Eastern disciples on either side of him. It was Baba and the mandali out for a stroll.

During the Rubens Hotel darshan, three well-dressed "high society" people came out of the reception, and one of them exclaimed, "You'll never get to the bottom of him! You'll never get to the bottom of him!"

One of the guests was unaccountably depressed when he arrived, but the feeling suddenly and completely vanished when Baba strode by. Another person noticed Baba's vitality seemed to wane as so many passed in succession to receive his touch. After meeting each person, however, there was entertainment and music, and Baba's glowing appearance returned.

After one woman sang a song, Baba dictated:

One who hears the music of God in his heart — such wonderful music, for it is the Original Music — loses his bodily consciousness and sees God everywhere.

God is within everyone. He is in all of us, infinite, all-powerful. The helplessness that you now feel here is because you are now in the body, and it is all illusion, although God is so omnipotent. Why is that? It is illusion. It is the veil between you and God.

The veil of what? That veil is the veil of ignorance. Once you come to know that the body is not real and this body is not you, then that veil of ignorance is lifted. When you are indeed asleep, the body is there, although you are not. The body breathes, and yet you are not aware of its breathing when you are asleep; then you may dream you eat; or in the dream you go to the movies. It is not the body that dreams; it must be YOU.

Suppose this body has its legs cut off; you are in no way less conscious, nor do you feel that there is any curtailment in your own existence. You are still you and your consciousness is not curtailed. Mind understands, yet the veil of illusion is not lifted because of the veil of ignorance which you still have.

Once you see God within you, you get the conviction. There is no more doubt. Then there is the experience of infinite bliss.

I give my blessings to you all.

Baba then said, "Now try to completely silence your mind for one minute." A minute of silence followed and Baba continued, giving a simple but effective method of daily remembrance:

If those who love me will just for one minute, as now, be silent in their minds just before they go to bed, and think of me and picture me in the silence of their minds, and do that regularly, then this veil of ignorance that you have will disappear, and this bliss that I speak of, and which all long for, you will experience.

When I am in seclusion I do not give discourses and messages at all, but I have given the above because of my love for you. Because of my love for you, picture me now, and picture me every day for that one minute in silence. Do it every day; do not break the sequence of this daily connection and then you will achieve this bliss.