THE MAD ASHRAM — Part 3

 
Innumerable institutions functioning throughout the world for the mental and physical relief of a suffering humanity are at best the outcome of pity. And pity, you must know, is one of the most subtle and clever disguises assumed by the human ego. All the same, it cannot be despised as it supplies a great motive force, unhampered by barriers of religion, culture and nationality. Pity is the saving grace of mankind; where religion and morality fail, it steps in to save man from degenerating into a beast.

Thus far only ordinary mortals can rise. But when Love appears, it transforms the whole field of action. The most altruistic and selfless motive pales before its glamour, the most beautiful dream of religion and philosophy — the brotherhood of man — looks up to it hopefully to be interpreted into reality.

Nothing in universe can resist the force of Divine Love expressed through man. History of the world bears ample testimony to this. Divine Love, with man as the vehicle thereof, has flooded the world from time to time; has subdued continents and elevated mankind from depths of moral degradation to heights of spiritual excellence.

Meher Baba is the chosen vehicle of Divine Love today. His playful and loving contact with the mad inmates of the Ashram is a practical demonstration on a small scale of what the worried world may expect of him when he manifests himself and delivers the message of Love and Peace on earth.