Fwd: MAY 26, 1958 - BABA DISCOURSES ON "GOD AND COSMOS" AND "REAL BIRTH AND REAL DEATH."
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Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 07:21:53 +0530
Subject: MAY 26, 1958 - BABA DISCOURSES ON "GOD AND COSMOS" AND "REAL
BIRTH AND REAL DEATH."
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*MAY 26, 1958 - BABA DISCOURSES ON "GOD AND COSMOS" AND "REAL BIRTH AND REAL
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*MEHER BABA *arrived at the Barn at ten o'clock on the morning of May 26th,
(1958) ...
Now we will listen to the discourses." And this one about *God and Cosmos *was
read out: (1)
God is Infinite Reality; cosmos is infinite illusion. In infinite illusion
there are infinite suns, stars, moons, planets and the creation as a whole
evolves ad infinitum.
For instance, take the head of a human being. The head is one, and there is
one individual mind. Yet innumerable hairs grow over this one head. Even
when all the hair is shaved, the growth of hair does not cease; the hair
reappears and covers the head.
Within the head as such, the hairs, though innumerable, have no value
because even when all the hair falls off, the head, though bald, remains.
Whatever value attached to the hair is but decorative. The hair may help to
make the head appear attractive and may create a feeling of
self-satisfaction. But hairs as such have no value when compared with the
head on which they appear and disappear.
One individual mind that generates innumerable thoughts may be compared with
the head that has a growth of hair, also innumerable. One individual mind is
capable of containing, emanating and absorbing any number of thoughts.
Energy and all matter are the outcome of mind itself.
To understand the all-importance of God, Who is Infinite Reality, let this
all-importance be compared with the importance of the mind, and the
importance of creation be compared with the hair upon the head.
I tell you that God is infinitely all-important when compared with the
cosmos, which has no value other than that of the hair upon one's head – the
hair that lures one and creates illusory self-satisfaction.
Then a second discourse on* Real Birth and Real Death* was read:
There is one real birth and one real death. You are born once, and you
really die only once.
What is real birth? It is the birth of a "drop" in the Ocean of Reality.
What is meant by it? It is the advent of individuality, born of
indivisibility through a glimmer of the first most-finite consciousness,
which transfixed cognizance of limitation into the Unlimited.
What is meant by real death? It is consciousness getting free of all
limitations. Freedom from all limitations is real death. It is really the
death of all limitations. In between the real birth and the real death,
there is no such reality as the so-called births and deaths.
What really happens in the intermediate stage known as births and deaths is
that the limitations of consciousness gradually wear off until consciousness
is free of all limitations. Ultimately, consciousness totally free of all
limitations experiences the Unlimited Reality eternally. Real dying is equal
to real living. Therefore I stress: "Die for God and you will live as God."
Baba further commented:
You are first a child, then grow old and drop the body, but you never die
and were never born. In the East, Vedantists believe in reincarnation, in
numberless births and deaths until one attains God. The Muslims believe in
one birth only and in one death only. The Christians and the Zoroastrians
believe the same. All are right. But Zarathustra, Ram, Krishna, Buddha,
Jesus, Muhammad and all previous Avatars meant what I mean by real birth and
real death. I say: "You are born once and die once."
All the so-called births and deaths are only sleeps and awakenings. The
difference between sleep and death is that when you sleep, you awake and
find yourself in the same body. But after death, you awake in a different
body. You never die; only the blessed ones die and become One with God.
(1) This discourse was also entitled, *The Head and the Hair on the Head.*
Lord Meher, 1st. ed., Bhau Kalchuri, Vol. 15, pp. 5426 - 5428.
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