DISCOURSES & TALKS BY MEHER BABA

STATE OF GOD-REALIZATION IN A SADGURU

2nd February, 1923

While conversing with the mandali that same day, Baba explained the state of God-realization and the Perfect Master and Avatar:

Realization is only one. The difference between the Perfect Masters and the majzoobs is that the former have the authority to use the power they have, while the latter do not. That which is handed over by the Perfect Master to his chargeman is not power — which is already in him — but the authority to use it. During his physical lifetime, the Perfect Master can do the greatest amount of Universal work for the good of the world. After he leaves the body, he enjoys eternal bliss, and though the power is with him, he cannot use it.

For this reason, at the tomb or samadhi of a Perfect Master there is spiritual power. But it is the faith of people in the disembodied Master which becomes the medium to utilize that power. It is for this reason that people derive benefits by revering a Perfect Master's tomb; but the benefit accruing from such sources and drawn upon by the individual's faith is invariably material in nature.

Internal spiritual benefit can only be derived when the God-realized Master is in the physical body. There have been some rare instances of people deriving spiritual benefit from the shrines of past Masters or saints. But this spiritual benefit is derived only in special cases where the earthly connection of the receiver and the giver has been cut short by unavoidable circumstances. Such instances are very rare and far between.  Material benefit from disembodied saints is more common and is in proportion to the faith of the receiver.

There is nothing outside ourselves. Everything such as planes, heavens, universes, earths, beings and things are all within us. The Master gives the aspirant nothing that is not already latent in him; he is only instrumental in rousing the aspirant to the awareness of the divine treasure within him. He shows us the treasure that is already there. Duty, therefore, means 'authority'. It is for this reason that a Perfect Master is ever eager and longs to give up this mortal body that prevents him from enjoying his eternal bliss. From the beginningless beginning, the Avatar is the only Perfect Master who takes birth on this plane again and again from time to time.

The last perfect form of that Sadguru was Rasool-e-Khuda [Muhammad]. As Maulana Niaz Ahmed says:

"The name and characteristics of my Friend in every age vary.

His form changes — but the face is always one!"

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