DISCOURSES & TALKS BY MEHER BABA

WHY ANYONE CAN'T READ BABA'S BOOK

14 September, 1927

Someone then asked Baba why he was not allowing anyone to read his book in which he said he revealed hitherto unknown spiritual truths. Baba explained:

One must be prepared to read what I have written.

It would be dangerous in one respect; if this intellectual knowledge is imparted, at times the desire for God-realization and experiencing that state vanishes, and the aspirant is only satisfied with what he knows intellectually or sees. Then the desire for union does not remain as keen.

Suppose there is a vast treasure, or something of great worth beyond imagination, and there is a curtain between your room and it. This reading and intellectual knowledge would be equal to a literal explanation given by the one who has seen or experienced these things. You yourself don't see the treasure behind the curtain, but have only read about it or heard it described.

Lord Meher On-line page 844-5

Lord Meher Vol.3 p.965