DISCOURSES & TALKS BY MEHER BABA

BE  LIKE  A  FOOTBALL

3rd June, 1925

Baba would be very exacting when he observed their work and would daily find some fault with them. On 3 June, they both became exasperated with his criticisms. Baba listened to them and then advised them:

Be like a football, which never cries out or complains when kicked. Its fortune is to receive kicks, and the force and height of its kicks are its beauty. You, too, should try to reach the level of accepting and remaining humble and unaffected by kicks [criticisms]. My kicks will raise you up high, higher, infinitely higher and beyond! The greater the force of the kick to the football, the higher it flies. Similarly, you will also rise high above the world.

Baba then instructed Padri, "Continue giving medicines to the sufferers, and I will go on blessing you." From that day on, Padri's treatment carried with it Baba's blessings.

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