DISCOURSES & TALKS BY MEHER BABA

 

GOD-REALIZED BEINGS HAVE TO KEEP BUSY

 

 

1st November, 1923

 

When the mandali related that Maharaj was busy digging a pit as they left Sakori, Baba explained:

 

God-realized souls have to keep themselves occupied in one way or another. They want to drop their bodies and go Home — they do not want [to play] this illusory game. So they keep themselves occupied in a childish manner all the time.

 

One of the ways is constant conversation. If a new person comes, they will question him, "Where are you from?" If the man says "America," a Master will answer, "Where is America, I've never heard of that country ... What do you do there?"

 

If the man replies, "I am a carpenter," the Master will say, "What sort of wood do you use?

 

What sort of tools? Are they expensive?" and so on, and so on.

 

Some God-realized souls and Perfect Masters continue talking and talking to keep them connected with their physical forms. Or else they might take a cloth, rip it to shreds and sew it back again — anything to keep themselves occupied. If they were to keep quiet and inactive, they would drop their bodies. The pull, the attraction of Union, is so very powerful, they long to go Home. Although they are already "there", still they do not wish to remain in illusion.

 

 

 

Lord Meher On-line page 463-4

Lord Meher Vol.2 p.572-3