INSTRUCTION TO OBEY

 
After Meher Baba returned to India in June 1958, He sent each one who had been to His Sahavas at Avatar's Abode an instruction to obey. The instructions were more individual this time, not everyone received the same one. They were not in the least harmful to others.

Francis Brabazon seemed to get the most difficult one which required him to fast on milk for forty days. During this time his movements were restricted to the property of Avatar's Abode. A lot of other people had to say a repetition a certain number of times daily. Other people were given different specific instructions.

The thing that really mattered was not what the instruction was, but one's determination to carry it out at all costs no matter what it was.

The hardest thing was always the initial decision to be obedient. Once a person was determined to be obedient come what may, it became much easier to carry out the instruction. It was also just as important not to be fooled by a seemingly trivial order. It was important to carry out each and every one.

Somehow Baba seemed to be able to couple up instructions with the events in your life and if you carried them out the results were satisfactory, but if you didn't the events of life just seemed to go against you and everything went wrong.

Being obedient to Meher Baba was an extremely serious matter. It was far better not to receive an instruction from Him than to receive one and not carry it out.