SETTLING THE ACCOUNTS

 
God is the perfect accountant, and the Avatar keeps the account of the deeds of each one perfectly without writing down anything. The Avatar knows the account of each one from his beginning in creation until today, and so he knows now the account of each one until his end. No one knows this perfect accounting except God. God takes human form as the Avatar age after age in order to balance the debit and credit sides as far as possible, in the ratio required for further individual and collective progress.

Maya is the shadow of God and Maya plays havoc in disturbing the equilibrium of the debit and credit sides of each one's deeds. When this equilibrium is disturbed to the most terrible extent, nature starts revolting and the earth falls into the chasm of calamities. At such a time God must descend on earth.

The Avatar then works to settle the account of each human being and also the account of every level of consciousness in evolution. Settling the account of each individual is not easy, because the accounts are made up of sanskaras. The human mind gathers ten million sanskaras in one second, or six hundred million in one minute, or three billion, six hundred million in one hour, so imagine how many trillions and zillions of sanskaras are collected in one human lifetime. To settle the accounts of sanskaras, so one can further progress, is a work unimaginable.

The Avatar's work requires universal mind, because the work is beyond the intellect, and only the INFINITE INTELLIGENCE knows how to calculate such accounting, and this accounting is achieved without the slightest error. The purpose of reincarnation is to spend the sanskaras one collects, and because there are so many millions of sanskaras collected is the reason why one must reincarnate about eight million, four hundred thousand times.

To convey an idea of the sanskaric accounting, the INFINITE INTELLIGENCE in the universal mind knows now what happened to a particular person one hundred years ago at this very moment and what that same particular person had thought even one thousand years ago at this very moment.

The INFINITE INTELLIGENCE also knows at this very moment what will happen one hundred years from now and what will be thought one thousand years into the future. Time is not a factor for the knowing calculations of the universal mind, and neither is space.

When the Avatar comes he uses his universal mind, and to the universal mind the whole history of the universe is an open book. When Meher Baba came he found that the account of the universe was not properly balanced. Because of this universal imbalance, progress in the evolution of consciousness was stopped.

Consciousness was running up huge bills of debt because of so many unnatural actions. If you borrow from a bank or someone, you must repay the loan. If you don't, you will not be given any more credit until you pay. You cannot borrow again until you have repaid your loans.

Basically, the situation in the universe was that consciousness had borrowed more than it could pay back, and could not find anyone else to borrow from. Consciousness was going bankrupt. In other words, consciousness had become too murderous, too selfish, too greedy, too hateful, too lustful, too false, etc., to balance itself. And there was no way to compensate for all of this.

It is the Avatar who must pay, and so he works and suffers for each one to settle the imbalanced accounts, and thereby sets the account for each one straight, a natural level of debit and credit. But while he works for the benefit of each one, very few cooperate with him, because very few want to pay back their debits. Most of the world opposes his work, because most refuse to pay back.

Everyone must repay and be paid their sanskaric debits and credits. But because of the amount of debit amassed, the Avatar comes to protect humanity. In spite of opposition, his work protects the world, and his love protects humanity. After finishing his work the Avatar drops his body. Since the Avatar's work is most perfect, the result of the work is most perfect. He perfectly settles the accounts by making each one pay, but also by protecting the debtors from the creditors.

After the dropping of the Avatar's body, adjustments in every account take place according to the work done by the Avatar. A time comes when all adjustments in every one's account are settled. Each one pays and is paid to whomever he is sanskarically in debt to or has credit with. Everyone has the capacity to pay the price for going further on the path of Truth, though this capacity varies from person to person. Each one has the opportunity to clear their debts and be free, but those in whom the capacity varies continue to establish debts.

When all have the capacity to pay the price for progressing further along the path to Truth, they will naturally wonder who has given them this opportunity. This opportunity is the Avatar's legacy to humanity, the Father's legacy to his children. When humanity realizes it was an inheritance, and something they did not earn, then the love of the Avatar manifests, and people read his will, "I have given you, my children, this inheritance. I love you all. I have suffered infinitely for your sake. I embrace you. All are forgiven."

Let us long for the embrace of our Compassionate Father, who has suffered infinitely for us. Let us accept his forgiveness by suffering the pain of separation to that extent wherein our longing will achieve Union.