WAKE UP

  The next point arises: how shall you create the circumstances by which you will be able to love Baba? Baba says He is the Avatar of the Age. He says He is the personification of God, and He resides in your heart all the time. How is it possible for you to love Him? There are ways and methods which Baba has suggested. Baba says, "It is very easy. Think of Me, remember Me, read My literature." You may talk with the people who have had long contact with Meher Baba. You may meditate upon Him. You may think about Him much of your time. You need not allot a fixed time of an hour or so in the morning or at night. But just as you sit, walk, or do your work, or put a morsel of food in your mouth, or before you fall asleep or after you arise, remember Him. It is very easy. It is not difficult at all.

A man can be working in his office. During the working hours he gets many spare moments. He gets a little tea time; he gets a little time to talk. Likewise, a woman at home can pay attention to every bit of the responsibility of her life. But every moment she can remember Him. When she takes a pitcher of water she can say, "Baba." When she lifts it up she can say, "Baba." When she opens the tap, she remembers Him. When she cooks food, she can remember Him. Before sleeping, she can remember Him. Perform all your duties very faithfully; do not neglect them. But every spare moment of the day, without mental exertion, without any strong sadhana, you can continue remembering Him and creating the circumstances whereby His love will be evoked in your heart. Baba says He likes you to pay attention to every bit of the responsibility of your life at work and at home.

You can also allot a little time and sit quietly. Baba has simplified it so much that as you live, work and grow, you grow with Him and begin loving Him. The previous Avatars and Perfect Masters have introduced a life which is not suitable to present day circumstances. This is the Kali Yuga, the age of darkness. So Baba has put it in such a way that while doing all your work, earning your money, looking after your family, God's love can grow in your heart.

A man can do it. A woman can do it. A student can do it. An old man can do it. Anybody can do it. It is so easy. It requires no money. It requires no talent. It requires no beauty. Anybody on the earth, in any corner or any place, in any profession, any service, is able to do it.

Baba says, "I am present in your heart." But why is it that you do not feel it? He says, "Because you do not love. Because you are not present there. That's why. I reside in your heart. When I see that you are not present, I go to sleep. I am asleep in your heart. You have to wake Me up. And the only thing that can awaken Baba in your heart is love, is constant remembrance, and nothing else."

Imagine that a mother and child are sleeping, and the child wakes up and wants milk. What does he do? He shouts, wails and perhaps pats his mother to wake her up so that she will feed him some milk. We have to be like a child and try to wake Him up. He is asleep. All along He has been asleep within us because we have paid no attention to Him. We should start right from this moment paying attention and trying to wake up Meher Baba, who is all-pervading and so much in our hearts. He says that we will be able to see Him and feel Him, and that once we awaken Him the result will be that we will enjoy all-knowledge, all-power and all-bliss. The Sat-Chit-Anand state which Meher Baba says He enjoys, will come to us. We will be able to experience it. We will be able to enjoy life, and there will be no fear of life here or hereafter — no fear of losing money, no fear of losing name, no fear of losing reputation, no fear of death. Death has to come, but without fear. It will be all joy and all bliss.

Baba says He is the Ocean of Love. He is the Ocean of everything. And when we wake Him up in our hearts by loving Him very much then His experience, which is that of the Ocean of Love, will be our destiny. We will be able to live as the Ocean and not as a drop, a helpless small man. Though in the same body, we will be inwardly all aflame with His Love. We shall even experience the same knowledge, the same power and the same bliss which He does.

Although Meher Baba calls Himself the Avatar of the Age, He has said that, "You and I are not we but one. You are as much God as I am. The only difference is that I am conscious that I am God. And you, being God yourself, are not conscious of it. So I have come to give you that consciousness of your real Self, which is nothing else but God."