ON BABA'S WORK

 
Baba is the Avatar of the Age and the greatest work anyone can do is to love Baba as Baba ought to be loved. He alone who can love Baba does Baba's work. What is Baba's work? It is to tell people who Baba is and that Baba says one should love all, slander none, have a pure heart and not make others suffer for one's own comfort and pleasure.

If Baba's workers themselves lack these qualities, how can they tell others of what Baba says, and work as Baba's workers? On the contrary, such workers have no share in doing Baba's work. They are a burden in Baba's work.

There are two types of workers. There is one who tells people who Baba is and what Baba says, and himself lives and acts as I want my worker to be in life. There is another, who also loves me, in his own way, and lacks the qualities desired by me. When such a one, instead of doing my work haphazardly, confesses his incapacity to others, and tells them what I want them to do, there is no binding created for the workers and no burden felt by me on behalf of such a worker. The worker should be bold and candid enough to admit and try to overcome his weaknesses before he attempts to preach what Baba says.

In doing Baba's work there is one great difficulty. The workers have love for Baba, no doubt, but at the same time they have their characteristic weaknesses. The great difficulty resides in the expression of one's ego — the feeling of self-importance by which one is possessed, despite one's best efforts to lose it. The heart is for weakening the ego, but the mind is for strengthening it. The mind gains a sense of greatness in doing Baba's work.

There is no escaping this. What is to be done then? Try to be humble? But even when the leader of a group charged with the responsibility of spreading Baba's message of love tries to be humble, his co-workers may take it as a mere posing on the part of their leader and look down upon him; though for his quality of leadership other people respect the leader.

Another weak spot in doing Baba's work is that the workers themselves fail to cooperate. With differences of opinion they find fault with one another. The result is that the work itself suffers. All this is because the workers differ among themselves while they dare to carry to the people Baba's message of Love and Truth and Purity of heart!

But there is a remedy for this type of disunity. If the workers tried to act upon it sincerely, it would be easy to wipe away the weak spot. Real workers are those who, in addition to giving help to their leaders, disregard the faults of their leaders and coworkers.

In such cases, the workers themselves become leaders, and yet remain sincere workers too. If my workers follow this advice, and cooperate with their leaders and co-workers, understanding that it is I who have entrusted the responsibility to the group-heads, then your Baba's work would be done.