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Chapter 9

Baba says


     “My real form is indescribable! When I speak, a few will experience it from within. At that time, My outward form will resemble the forms of Christ, Mohammed, Buddha, Krishna, Rama and Zarathustra. They all had My face and hair.”
     “I have come not to teach but Awaken. Understand therefore, that I lay down no precepts. Throughout eternity, I have laid down principles and precepts, but mankind has ignored them. Man’s inability to live God’s words, makes the Avatar’s teachings a mockery. Instead of practising the compassion He taught, man has waged crusades in His name. Instead of living the humility, purity and truth of His words, man has given way to hatred, greed and violence.”
     “Because man has been deaf to the principles and precepts laid down in the past, in this present Avataric form, I observe silence. You have asked for and been given enough words—it is now time to live them. To get nearer to God, you have to get further and further away from ‘I’, ‘my’ and ‘mine’. You do not have to renounce anything but your own self. It is as simple as that, though considered to be almost impossible. It is possible for you to renounce your limited self by My grace.I have come to release that grace.”
     “I repeat—I lay down no precepts. When I release the tide of Truth, which I have come to give, man’s daily lives will be a living precept. The words I have not spoken will come to life, in them.”
     “I veil Myself from man by his own curtain of ignorance and manifest My glory to only a few. My present Avataric form is the last incarnation of this cycle of time; hence, My manifestation will be the greatest. When I break My silence, the impact of My love will be universal and all life in creation will know, feel and receive it. It will help every individual to break himself free from his own bondage, in his own way.”
     “I am the Divine Beloved who loves you more than you can ever love yourself. The breaking of My silence will help you in knowing your real Self.”
     “All the world confusion and chaos was inevitable and no one is to blame. What had to happen has happened and what has to happen will happen. There was and is no way except through My coming in your midst. I had to come, and I have come. I am the Ancient One.”

Meher Baba in 1920's