MY SILENCE HAD TO BE

[Santhosh Kumar Behara]

   

MY SILENCE HAD TO BE

                       - Avatar Meher Baba

Through endless time God's greatest gift is
continuously given in silence. But when mankind
becomes completely deaf to the thunder of his silence,
God incarnates as man. The Unlimited assumes the
limited, to shake maya-drugged humanity to a
consciousness of its true destiny and to give a spiritual
push to the world by his physical presence on earth. He
uses the body for his universal work, to be discarded in
final sacrifice as soon as it has served its purpose.

God has come again and again in various forms, has
spoken again and again in different words and different
languages the Same One Truth -- but how many are
there that live up to it? Instead of making Truth the vital
breath of life, man compromises by making over and
over again a mechanical religion of it -- as a handy
staff to lean on in times of adversity, as a soothing balm
for his conscience or as a tradition to be followed in the
footsteps of the past. Man's inability to live God's
words makes them a mockery.

How many Christians follow Christ's teaching to "turn
the other cheek," or "to love thy neighbour as thyself?"
How many Muslims follow Muhammad's precept to
"hold God above everything else?" How many Hindus
"bear the torch of righteousness at all cost?" How many
Buddhists live the "life of pure compassion?" How
many Zoroastrians "think truly, speak truly, act truly?"

God's truth cannot be ignored; and thus by mankind's
ignorance and weakness a tremendous adverse reaction
is produced -- and the world finds itself in a cauldron
of suffering through wars, hate, conflicting ideologies,
and nature's rebellion in the form of floods, famines,
earthquakes and other disasters. Ultimately when the
apex is reached, God manifests anew in human form to
guide mankind to the destruction of its self-created evil,
that it may be re-established in the Divine Truth.

My silence and the imminent breaking of my silence is
to save mankind from the forces of ignorance, and to
fulfil the divine Plan of universal unity. The breaking of
my silence will reveal to man the universal oneness of
God, which will bring about the universal brotherhood
of man. My silence had to be. The breaking of my
silence has to be -- soon.


THE GOD-MAN, p. 346, C. B. Purdom
Copyright 1971 Meher Spiritual Center, Inc.