DISCOURSES & TALKS BY MEHER BABA

 

ABDULLA - The Prem Ashram boy

 

ABDULLA  ROKNELDIN  PAKRAW(V)AN (AHWAZI)

 

aka

CHHOTA  BABA

 

 

 

23rd January, 1928 (1)

 

 

Baba explained to the mandali:

 

 

Abdulla's weeping is due to his coming down from the mental sphere to the gross. He is thoroughly enjoying that state and never wishes to leave it, even at the cost of sacrificing his gross body, of which he has the least consciousness. His body is so very delicate at this point that it is not able to stand further strain. The slightest shock could be fatal to his body. By this process of cleansing his bowels, I am trying to bring him down to the gross. But he does not want the bliss to disappear, and hence he weeps.

 

 

Abdulla's present state is like a pir or wali on the sixth plane.

 

He now sees me in all. Although this is not a small achievement, it is not everything that one must achieve. The last and most important step is still left. He is not one with God — not Realized. This Realization cannot be given to anyone other than circle members, except during Avataric periods when a few extra persons are selected to be God-realized.

 

 

I have in mind to prepare two or three extras for Realization. I intend to make 20 or 25 individuals saints by giving them Sight, but Realization to only a selected two or three, and Abdulla is one of them. Although he has the sight of God now, he cannot be immediately God-realized for certain reasons. First of all, the strain of that Realized state would be too severe for his already strained and weakened body, which for the last two or three months has been in danger. His body may collapse any moment at the slightest shock. It is with great difficulty that he has been brought down to the gross from the mental sphere, as you are all well aware from the outward symptoms for the last five or six days.

 

 

Then there is another more significant reason of the difficulty involved in bringing someone down after Realization, and that is to make him regain full normal consciousness. This is the most difficult task of all. Majzoobs can be easily made, but not saliks and Sadgurus. For this reason, Abdulla has been kept in "reserve," to be God-realized with two others and brought down at the same time as the circle members. For when I give that great push forward toward final Realization and "backward" in order to bring them down, these two or three extra individuals will be pushed in and then out.

 

In the meantime, Abdulla may now be at ease, having achieved the Sight. In his present state, he is even worthy of devotion. He is worthy of worship by yogis who may fall at his feet with much benefit to themselves and no harm to him, for he has now been freed from all bindings. If he leaves the body, he will be in me — free from the rounds of births and deaths. If he survives, he will be Realized and will prove a great asset to his [Islamic] community, being my special representative in Arabia.

 

 

Lord Meher On-line page 888-9

Lord Meher Vol.3 p.1012-3

23rd January, 1928 (2)

 

Rajaram of course is a much lower state than that of Abdulla. Though he too sees me in all and will remain so, he is not to be Realized.

 

Now out of these saints that I will prepare, some two or three will be Realized, brought down with and at the time of the preparation of the circle. They will also be given special duty of lecturing in the world. They will have no circle, nor can they give any power to anybody, cannot even harm any. The only advantage people can have from them will be of their darshan and from their lectures. They will be salik types, hence conscious.

 

As for majzoobs, these are Realized, yet being unconscious of the world, they can do very little for its people, who can only have the advantage of serving them, for they are Realized.

 

The members of the circle have special duties assigned to them, after they are Realized and brought down. Internal as well as external. They can "turn" individuals only [towards the planes] but not realize anybody. People of the world can derive much advantage from their sahavas, discourses, and blessings. They can also attend secret meetings of Sadgurus. They have no circle. Except for the [Perfect] Masters, none has a circle.

 

In short, Rajaram and Abdulla got Sight. Their gross bodies are yet in danger for another two or three months and must be delicately preserved. Any slightest shock through excitement may either endanger their life or could paralyze them.

 

One of the reasons our task, as Masters, is so difficult in bringing someone down from the higher planes is that when the eyes are turned inward, the pressure of the blood in the human body, which usually flows downward, is to be reversed and turned upward. At this time, there being particular resistance while bringing someone down from subtle to gross, it is to be taken much care of. For the soul doesn't wish to come down from its higher to the lower [gross] state — as was experienced just now in the cases of Abdulla and Rajaram — and in this resistance, the gross body may be cast off at any moment.

 

 

Lord Meher On-line page 890-1

Lord Meher Vol.3 p.1015

 

 

 

23 January, 1928  (3)  Chhota Baba

 

 

Chhota Baba was then caressed by the Master and moved to his adjoining portion of the room. Turning to the mandali, Baba remarked, "He has no feeling whatsoever of these movements from here [Baba's seat] to there in the next room. This is fana — spiritual annihilation. In short, he is not the body; he is not the mind. He sees the Soul of souls."

 

Baba elaborated:

 

There are two states of fana: one unconscious as in the case of Rajaram, to whom all is nothing but the divine sight. He sees nothing but me. He is unconscious of his body, the world and all, except that sight. This is the state of the seeing majzoob, seeing God everywhere (as opposed to the Realized majzoob who sees the Self everywhere).

 

Rajaram is in a different state than Abdulla [Chhota Baba]: When Rajaram sees, he is conscious of his body and the world. He does not see that sight simultaneously, for he has the mind. Mind is not gone in him. And though mostly absorbed in the noor [divine light] that it sees, the mind sometimes is brought down, while talking, seeing other things of the world, and at that time he does not see the Light. But he can immediately take the mind out of the world and see the Light at will.

 

The second state of fana is that of Abdulla, to whom the mind is completely destroyed, and the Sight is always visible in all; but with the difference that it, the Seer-soul, recognizes the object seen as such.

 

Lord Meher On-line page 893-4

Lord Meher Vol.3 page 1015