BABA WAS TRYING TO DEEPEN OUR FEELINGS

 
Meher Baba is continuously working with each individual and our sanskaras to liberate us from our falseness within, to liberate our consciousness, to awaken us for good. For us, this means inner work and inner discipline and paying attention to everything. There must be no slack moments when we can fall off the sharp sword.

Baba would keep us on our spiritual toes to keep our momentum going with him by making promises to break his silence, assigning fasts, or telling us he was coming to visit. This would increase our enthusiasm, raise our vibrations, and create spiritual longing, which would produce a higher voltage in us.

Sometimes he would even say things like, "I'm going to die in a few months." Baba was trying to deepen our feelings and bring us closer, trying to make us one-pointed in our focus on him. He did not mind that those things would not happen; he had achieved his purpose, which was to keep us awake so that we would not fall back into the dream of illusion.