EXPLANATION OF HIS FIERY FREE LIFE

 
The role which God has willed for me has had several phases. The pre-Realization ordinary state, the Old Life state of realized divinity, the New Life state of perfect humility and intensive seeking of God as Truth through the achievement of Manonash, and the tripartite Free Life, which emerged after the attainment of Manonash, have all happened by God's Will.

In the first part of the Free Life, culminating on July 10th, 1952, bindings dominated freedom. It was in this first part that the personal disaster, for some years foretold by me, took place in the form of an automobile accident while crossing the American continent, causing me, through facial injuries, a broken leg and a broken arm, much mental and physical suffering. It was necessary that it should happen in America. God willed it so.

In the second part of this Free Life, freedom had dominated bindings. And in the third part of this Free Life, commencing from November 15th, 1952, both freedom and bindings are consumed in the Fire of Divine Love, which destroys the very basis of the illusion of duality and all its paraphernalia.

I am not concerned with individual reactions to me as an individual. They will be as various as there are individual temperaments. My sole concern in the Fiery Free Life, commencing from November 15th, will be with the Divine Truth of my Realization, which I would like to share with those who seek it. The consuming of freedom and bindings, which is characteristic of the Fiery Free Life, means that there is a complete blending of the God-state and the Man-state, so that the one does not live through opposition to the other, and there can be no question of the one encroaching upon the province of the other.

Spiritual freedom is essentially a positive state of conscious enjoyment of Infinite Divinity. It does not have to maintain itself through the constant overcoming of any bindings, for these come to be realized as not bindings of the soul, in its essence, but as temporary bindings of the body and the mind, which can in no way curtail the bliss, power and understanding of Conscious Divinity.

In other words, the bindings to which the soul seems to be subject turn out to be no bindings of the soul in its true essence. The bindings are realized as only illusory. After the annihilation of the limited mind, the Infinite Consciousness of the soul, with all its knowledge, power and bliss, remains unaffected by any weaknesses or diseases to which the body might yield as a result of natural laws.

The Perfect Ones, who retain normal consciousness and the body even after realizing the unchanging and absolute Truth, dwell eternally in Divine Love, which transcends all duality and surpasses all understanding. They enjoy abiding and unassailable peace, for they have at last arrived at the final goal of creation.

I have no connection with politics. All religions are equal to me, and all castes and creeds are dear to me. But, although I appreciate all "isms," religious and political parties for the many good things that they seek to achieve, I do not and cannot belong to any of these "isms," religious or political parties. For the Absolute Truth, while equally including them, transcends all of them, and leaves no room for separate divisions which are all equally false. The unity of all life is integral and indivisible. It remains unassailable and inviolable in spite of all conceivable ideological differences.

I am equally approachable to one and all, big and small,
      to saints who rise and sinners who fall,
      through all the various paths that give the Divine Call.

I am approachable alike to saint whom I adore
      and to sinner whom I am for,
      and equally through Sufism, Vedanta, Christianity,
      or Zoroastrianism and Buddhism,
      and other "isms" of any kind,
      and also directly through no medium of "isms" at all.

When I was in America, people asked me when I would break my silence. I, in turn, asked them: "If my silence cannot speak, of what avail would be speeches made by the tongue?" When God thinks my speaking would be heard universally, He will make me break my silence. However, silence or no silence, he who would deeply ponder over the Truth which I declare shall eventually be initiated into the Life Eternal.

Side by side with other activities of the Fiery Free Life, there will invariably be one constant feature of that life, wherever it takes me. I will bow down to the saints whom I adore, the masts whom I worship and the poor to whom I am wholeheartedly devoted. Nothing makes me more happy than the opportunities to bow down to God in all these forms. I like bowing down to the people rather than being bowed down to. To serve and worship God all around me is closest to my heart.

In the Fiery Free Life, all the frailties of the ego-life are completely consumed, and there is complete emancipation from all wants, desires and temptations. And the result of this Fiery Free Life will make the world understand that Meher Baba and everyone is One with God.