DISCOURSES & TALKS BY MEHER BABA

 

TO DIE THE REAL DEATH

 

 

 

24th February, 1923

 

There was a lively conversation between Gulmai Irani and the Perfect Master Upasni Maharaj.

 

Hearing these stories, Baba remained quiet for quite a while and then spoke a seemingly cryptic sentence: "It is better to die than to live; better to fear than to die; better to fill than to fear; and better to do, or make, than to fill!"

 

The mandali were at a loss to understand these words, and the Master explained in his own inimitable way:

 

To die does not mean the ordinary death of the body, but the real death of the ego; that is, to die before death, which amounts to becoming one with God.

 

To fear is also not to be taken literally. To fear means to be in the state of one created, in spite of realizing one's self as the Creator, or God. This is the state of a gross-conscious Perfect Master which is more difficult to attain and spiritually superior to that of a majzoob — one who remains eternally immersed in the Ocean of divinity, intoxicated continuously.

To fill means to fill the hearts of people with the wine of divine knowledge.

 

To do or make is the highest possible attainment. It means to make others perfect like yourself. To do for others what you have done for yourself! To make them like yourself in terms of power, knowledge, authority and duty! This is the most supreme state, the state of being a Perfect Master.

 

The meaning of my words is that it is better to be one with God than to lead a worldly life; better to return to normal consciousness after Union with God than to remain divinely absorbed; better to fill the hearts of others with divine love than to remain indifferent to humanity; and better to make others one with God than merely to fill their hearts with love!

 

 

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             UPASNI MAHARAJ                                                     GULMAI IRANI