DISCOURSES & TALKS BY MEHER BABA

 

NUMBER  7

 

 

 

 24 November, 1927

 

 

In reference to the number seven, Baba elaborated:

 

There are seven worlds [planets in evolution], seven skies, seven suns, seven moons, seven planes and seven heavens [in involution]. Why this figure seven? And sanskaras too are of seven colors. Why? Because in the very beginning, when Energy (Pran) clashed with Matter (Akash), it created seven divisions.

 

Each individual human being is a universe unto himself. In the head there are seven openings: two eyes, two ears, two nostrils, and one mouth. In the body there are seven parts: two arms, two legs, two openings (front and back), and one trunk.

 

But all this explaining of the universe and creation relates to the hair and has nothing to do with the head. So first try to get hold of the head, because out of it comes everything.

 

Baba drew a figure of a man's head with hair and added:

 

 

The barber's work is to shave the head. And who is the barber in this case? Mahapralaya! For when it occurs, all the hairs (universes) on God's head are shaved off.

 

It is said that the universes pour out of the Godhead; they are like God's hair. Your head may symbolize God and your hair the universes.

 

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