Eruch Jessawalla - In Life - the Attitude
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And it reminded me of an ancient story something and it came to my mind about a certain master who was well revered by the people.
Who followed him and the people of the town and the people of the capital of the kingdom and the people of the kingdom and the King himself revered him?
And you know when perfect Master is there.
People do Revere. I don't know why but somehow or other the light is this it's but natural for them to take the advantage of the light around you can't shut it can't
So it was it was all right for years together. He was there in that case in that Kingdom and all knew of him and the revered him these to go there around him and sit around him.
He didn't go out. He didn't hold classes. He didn't have any auditoriums you see.
To collect people wherever he is the people flock around him. That was the nature.
Even if he were to go to toilet, they would be all sitting around him you see and wanting him whatever the words that would proceed from him. It would be a lesson for them. So he was so popular.
He didn't live for himself. He couldn't he lived for others in short. His life was.
Years were passing by.
And time and again he had said many things like this this tape so many times. He must have said the same thing people got fed up of hearing.
And he would continue to tell them and just as we remonstrated just now so, you know what the time we have heard it so many times it was there who is to tell us that this is please Take It Outside. Yeah heard we know who we are you see, but naturally that was the refrain so you'd say and then he stopped saying these things your style.
One day out of the blue. His behavior was most unnatural never dreamt of what he did was something had happened to him all of a sudden this great one. Not only those who followed him revered him and had great regard and respect for him loved him. The whole kingdom was loving him. The king himself had great respect and love her. So what has happened to him? And what do they find one more?
Earning him wielding a huge post and in the marketplace it seemed as if a bull let loose in a china shop is just very goes on abusing people and throwing things out and doing all sorts of things.
Obscene as well as destructive and what has happened what has overcome this?
What is the matter with him all of a sudden overnight has he been turned into a cuckoo or what?
And there was a lot of Destruction there people were very sad about the whole thing. They did not get had such great regard and respect for him. They couldn't even speak out. What's the matter with you? They couldn't even hold him and stop him and he was just going wild.
The news reached the king in the capital and naturally people had their walls because so many things had been destroyed and all this and many people were beaten and many women were molested and all that. What's the matter with this man all of a sudden?
Shouldn't the king heard this and was very sad such a wise man. A man of great knowledge all knowledge to behave like that. He was someone who's come to the core. You are called by the king. So he says, why does he call me says he wants to hear the reason why you're behaving like that.
This is very if he wants to hear Let the whole world know about it. Tell him to summon all others where I will come and explain myself.
So well King had regard for him people at regard for him. So maybe he has to give some lesson through this. Let us hear what he has to say. Why should he be able overnight like that? So all gathered there. It seems to be a large Palace to hold so many people how many people can be held there in your Auditorium in the largest one there. I mean 4,000 5,000
Of course, there was no public address system at the time, but he could throw his voice.
So when he came he was he was called invited now. We are all gathered to hear. So as he entered the king addresses him mrs. Sir. We would like to hear from you the lesson that you wanted us to learn what had happened in the Market Square there. What did you want us to notice?
This is simple.
Has this time and again four years together. I've been telling you all about your destructive nature as to how you behave and how you how well how you appear in our eyes and you didn't take notice of what I was saying to you you got fed up with me.
So I had to demonstrate how you all appear to me and all that. I did was just try to mimic you all.
What happens in worldly? Nobody notices, but this is what happens with each one of you every day and once in a while I go in the marketplace and do the same thing.
You seem to be surprised. There's no reason for surprise is the same thing that happens within you. That's what you are doing.
All what I did was to mimic you all outwardly.
They took a lesson from your follow whatever that you took you took lessened instead of taking a lesson. You took that I have gone mad. I've gone crazy.
Overnight something has happened to me.
But how must I feel when I see each one of you in that act?
That was the lesson that he gave.
This morning only with it came to my mind is good that it has come again to me.
Yeah, that's how we are all the time.
But nobody knows this so sweet. Nobody knows only I know what's happening so good. I know I can play hello and get away with it.
Nobody's going to stop me.
That's how it is. So how must he be suffering every time when he's a witness to all our attitude. He means the one who is adorning this our hearts this chair of this vacancy or this place or that place in the west and in the east and north and south wherever he is.
Each moment is his crucifixion as he says.
Witnessing our attitude in life
So we are to be alert and such little tapes and such things bring home to us bring to our notice.
The play of her mind that's how it is simple.
Yeah, Richie 1949 you were with Bob on a trip to Pune in July and you had a contact with a must called nanu. Nanu by yeah. Do you remember that story? I heard it was absolutely side-splitting for Baba in the Mandalay the The Interchange the things that would come out of and lewdness and all sorts of
So what do you like in the Johnny? Do you remember the stories? I just read a very short account of it, but it doesn't really the only story that Baba confided in US is this
Which which has been mentioned the rest of course will remain with him and Barbara.
Can I pin it on it is problematic terrible problem with me also to confide with you.
But why do you wanted that? I don't know. I was reading the account last night and suddenly it came into my mind. You have to ask garish to tell us the story about the context nothing. They say the thing Acacia was beautiful. Yeah, he was he was the one whom I spotted the near the railway station. There is a lavatory.
And you know, I had the urge and I didn't know what to do. So I just try to find out where the lavatory is. So some are other I ask somebody else's well they are the blocks are there. They go there I went there and there was a person sitting there.
What was he doing? He was all wet. It seemed as if so many people must have come and rush you see until over him.
And he was most unmindful about it because he was not aware about what's happening around him. He was transported into a different region. He was more close to reality than what we are. So I immediately I was startled, you know, so naturally I took the next block and he's myself and then I said, oh, he must be the one Kebab Arjun
To play with it because Bob allowed to love them and crush them and fondle them. So with great difficulty, we got him there and Bob has really Overjoyed to have him and be with him and it's a sight I Can't Describe other than how overwhelm the Beloved becomes you see to see his lover like this.
Here in a worldly ways. We have to cajole and we have to act and draw the attention of our beloved but they the Beloved is so overwhelmed with the love of his lover that he goes all out.
To please the lover
To serve him to love him to feed him to fondle him to give all the attention.
So that was the that's all we I Can't Describe you to you all what happens you see, it's just that in the words. It can be poured out in this way. The intensity is much more when you see it. Yeah.
And then there was another one who came who was spotted and he was broad. He was a Muhammad and this was a Hindu.
And he was also God absorbed and all that and all the love has been poured out and all by Baba and he's being fed at the time and being caressed and fondled and served and massage and all that. So
Of course, it's happening between Bob and this lover we are not concerned here. You see me help him while he's bathing them while he's giving a crop or while he's feeding them and all and then the sit together all by themselves what they do. I don't know there might be some love affair going on.
So
All of a sudden Baba calls us and we hear this description of what this man had said on that spur of the moment at the time and what he had said was if I remember right it can paraphrase it is that that which is happening within me.
But it's very abusive language. Is he?
What can I say in the presence of the assembly here like all lovers of God you see and there he says
That he uses this word. If you want me to use, please forgive me. He says
The way that the heart is being fucked you may call it only. My Lord is a witness to it.
It means the to translate it in our own languages that the way that my heart is being what you call ranged and being ill-treated. You see only he is the witness it is he was doing and he is the witness. There's nobody else to hear me. But here you pour out your love and all that. What is this?
What he is trying to complain to the Beloved that you now fondled me and you do this and do that and you take care of my body and here and all that. But what about that is happening within me is being constantly raped.
Who is he taking care of that? That's what he says, but the way he said it was such a it brought out. Yeah, no, not the anguish. He in anguish, but it had surpassed his anguish at surprise surpassed. You know, when you're when you are beaten or when you are in such great despair that you laugh out. It was that that height was there.
So he was saying it not as the complain but as
Hilarious thought you see so Baba the enjoyed that what he said was he wanted us to hear what's happening to him. Don't you take your life to be easy as hear you call yourselves lovers of the Lord see what he's saying about loving the Lord. That's how it is.
Wasn't there also a public interchange between non Ube and Ghana yea tall all that was this has nothing just same thing complaints and all that sort of thing.
But these are the things that happens.
We don't realize that we take it for granted everything. We take it for granted using.
Call ourselves lovers of the Lord, but it's not it's just
When we when I say that I love him. It's insulting him. It's not that if I were to really love him, I won't sit here and talk about love.
But even when they are loving in their own way when they just do not want they want to be just crashed and burned and consumed and all that but we don't permit them. We bring them to the Lord. That's where the it's very irritating easy because love wants to be consumed totally and is brought from there from the from that situation and put them on a pedestal there before the Lord himself.
That day just flared up.
Because in I don't know what that situation is have you'll come across in your love affairs with I haven't come across in such situations is once you are jilted or 1cr or neglected or there is indifference from the Beloved and then the Beloved temples you how you don't want you don't want to see the face of the Balaji that that's the situation. Hmm.
So that's also is more intense form in the spiritual path. Some intensified situation. Don't want to hear the name don't want to talk about it either but you still want to love all the more.
It's A peculiar situation it's not lovers quarrel is Dolores Street using complaint or whatever you call it.
Where are the gifts that the misgav to Baba? Where are the gifts that the must skip to bother you everything got here bear with us there when you did he give instructions how they should be careful. No, just keep it. Tins are there.
Once I remember
We are we were in Baroda. It's a big booty call. It's the capital of state at the time of the British Isles. One of the richest states in India Baroda, you know Guru Prasad was the Palace of Baroda. Yeah, so we are in prior to the all this happening early years. We are in Baroda this in nighttime night.
And we are going with flashlights and we had heard of great one somewhere. Where was it in the red-light District? You see he was to be found there, you know where the prostitutes are in the brothels. So we are going there with the flashlight and on the top floor or on the steps. There is yes come inside. They say thinking that we are in search of them customers you see so
He said yeah, I saw that but his his his here or is he there? So this is no you come in and we'll tell you about it. No, but Jesus it will goes on like that. It's very embarrassing situation with the Lord himself and the women they're wanting customers and all that.
But at last we did come across so somebody said his regular place, you know habitat is on the first floor of this particular flat go there and you will be sitting near the staircase. You know, after you you climb a staircase there is a little platform. They're Landing there. So in a corner, that is Place some some good person told us don't go in like that in the night. You won't be able to find him.
Would be harassed and we were harassed from here and there and all that they were calling us is so this is go there and you will find him there. So we did go there and we found him there. He was sitting there. His name was Jan Boucher can do shh. Shh means king. I don't know. Why is he called shambhu?
So there he was so he sees us and of course Baba was very happy to see him as usual and although the exchanges love affairs are going between him and his lover and all that and we are a witness to a to an extent. He allows us to witness these things to a degree and then of course when they want to be together, he'll tell us go away. So what we see at the time is this so he
He seated and Baba. Is there bending on here over him and all that and he says give me your hat Sababa takes and give it give it to him.
So then he says I want your core. So Baba takes out the court and gives it to him.
So Heap he tried he has to put on the coat, but he doesn't want to put on because he has got such shabby and dirty clothes. Where is dirty full of oil and grease and all that. I don't know. He has not changed for many years. So he removes his shirt and says you waited and then by the way is right and then says give me a trouser Barber takes the trouser out. He gives his trouser to buffer between and he wears the trousers all those clothes.
Kept also you asked about these things. You know, these are the gifts given by love with such great love. So these are the things that are there sometimes, you know, these porcelain pieces you have saucers and cups and you know, those the time of the British as we had those plates with a nice little colored things leaves and all that floral designs and all and when the plate breaks what happened, what do you call?
You use for Mosaic things, you know, so those pieces that there are musts who used to play with the year collect them. They were there all of them. So seeing Bob and they would take something Ababa and in return give that so they are kept as his gear as the gifts of his lovers and so forth all these things are there.
He wouldn't want to touch even by a long pole charged not judge.
Because we are discharged. That's the reason you would want to test is so shabby and dirty, you know, but for him it is a treasure. That's how we I say we can never know.
What is the love affair?
Real Love is different from what we have been hearing and we have been reading many novels and all novels tell us about love ourselves with this is no law. There is something Beyond us love is beyond all these things but we are apt to confuse love with sex life and possessions possessiveness. Which Beyond it is. It has to transcend all that.
What did you say as he makes us aware of these things? Not that we have learned the lessons completely but we are becoming aware gradually.
And surely that is that is the thing that is real that substance is the here all this is Shadow we all play.
The David go to to please his lover. Of course. They are they are the lovers of the Lord. He is the Beloved of us all he's a Lord but when he comes across his lover to what extent he would go. I mean he would forget the Mandalay and everything everything everything. Yeah, nothing. That is the happiest time that he would have.
His but natural for the mouth to be attracted to the light. There's nothing nothing new about it. We know it how the moths get attracted to light. I don't know whether you all have that phenomena there sure you have it there in the state's all sir, but how many of them get destroyed?
That's what ended.
We call it destruction, but that is the resurrection. Yeah.
Yeah, if you do find.
Bigger and bigger crowd that's what I was telling this morning to Marshall and Rosie saying that well that charm, you know, they are days to come you at come also those nice little small crowd. We used to be very happy with people remembering him and all that. But now the amethy occasion is such that we we get ourselves lost. They're using as if we are
Right in the midst of a battle raging war is like that. We don't know what's happening is hmm. So I was bemoaning the Fate you see of a that we have lost those that old Cham that we could be with one another and talk about him and sit and remain at one place and all he'll be gets we have no room to even stand properly. That's what has happening.
After the occasion is over and we said did my brother come I had not seen he would leave me without seeing me but what made him not come this time and surely when we will write sometimes later on so is of course I did come but I couldn't find you. It's like that. Yeah, so where is the charms that Hearts coming together?
And his love here. Now. The situation has come to this page where each on his own has his own relationship with him. Formally that relationship would give us Delight you see to be together and think of him and remember him and love him and doesn't that there is still that same thing, but we get lost.
Do you want us to help it I'm a teepee be beaten.
But as far as the crabs and think crowd control and I mean like you mentioned the other day you needed the help of everybody's this year. Everybody remained with him could be so disciplined.
Everybody focusing on him would be a great discipline and nothing nothing is to be controlled then.
But when everybody is not focusing on him and everybody is well after I didn't have my food properly. Where is the food stall where the tea stalls? Where is the flower? I must offer my flowers. Where are the bananas? Some gifts must be offered in our so then you have to we need some help for that guiding them via here. That's article 14 persons around him when he passed away unfortunately 31st, January.
Was it in that room across the yeah, and that room they have you been to that room. Have you all been to Baba's room be there? Yes Roberts somebody will take take them to Baba's in the search. Yeah, laughter laughter evening time after lunch evening means our evening is between three and six your evening is after eight o'clock after three after TI all can go so at the time.
What I'm saying is reminiscing that day 31st, January 14 of us were there and they were all divided here there and doing this and doing that the at 12:15. There was this gong that went we it was to be to summon the all the people who are there and 14 were there so we all were there because of the gong emergency gong, you know that story about the emergency gone.
Mm-hmm.
What things you see are left unsaid? I don't know so many things so there is that gong see that gong there. There are two gongs over there. There is one called the old Kong the that is known as the gong that was used when you please get ya see that that one see this gone. Yeah when this Kong came
And reached Baba in this Hall. It was sent by his brother Andy from England is from an antique shop old thing. It was the you you didn't hear the stories. So on 31st so prior to 31st January when he would be visiting this place. The news went out from here there and all that Baba needs some bills and gongs or something. I don't know how it went around and why was it because
In order to summon money or run. Oh, oh God. We used to formally shout out right now. Baba wants you girl and all that sometimes when there are people it doesn't look good. You see to shout out the names, you know that I'm summoning them money bubba wants you so then they thought of that well ring the bell and call us before different sounds yeah person. So then Baba would ya would be told that this bill Baba means money and this of course. Mm. Yeah.
So all those bills were lined up there, you know, these little bills with different notes. So with money it will be that Ting Ting Ting. Ron will be little bigger government bigger still and all that. I think ours bill is the Petit Bell that rings every three o'clock. That is the same Bell. So that's how it was. So naturally news went around that Baba hernia by the need of bells or something. Okay, that's wonderful.
So body thought must have seen this ganga somewhere in an antique shop because he is to deal with empty articles and all the furniture and all he saw it and he liked it and said, it had a very beautiful ring and he sent it over to baba baba baba baba looked at it and says, what will we do with this is surprised. You see what what are we to do with this?
Any thought of it releases? Yeah, it's a good thing because this wall separates men and women women stay there and Men stay young. We have nothing to do with them. So unless there is some emergency or anything. This is yeah, this will serve as an emergency gong emergency. So Baba called Governor or somebody money or somebody. This is look hang it over there The Veranda that is there in emergency what you do ring this?
And hearing the gong all of you. He is addressing the men men Lisa's leave everything and run to the place. So we used to do so, we remember that. So once twice Thrice what he did what he did was whenever he would go there once in a while all of a sudden they will hear this and we are to leave everything and run there because of some great emergency and then Bauer look has have all come.
I'll get me a glass of water from there, please so so you'll drink Waters is now you can go so remember when the gong Rings you all should be here. So that's how we thought that well there is some emergency over there and we should Rush fire. Yeah. So what happened? Yeah, it was like that drill, but the real emergency was 31st, January still remember must be about 12 15 or so.
And the gong rang and all rushed, of course, most of some of us were there most of them were outside so they came and that was the emergency that he had passed away.
What was I saying? Yeah at that time. We were 14 altogether men and women mind you yeah, the Lord has passed away from a midst and we have 14 and then 1969. You saw how people started collecting did the see Baba. Did you see him before that?
Did you see his body?
Why did you come likewise if you ask so many people you see you came. You came had you seen him before now. Who came? Why did you all come? Nobody knows the gong rang? It was it was so yeah, wait, I'm coming se9 in 1969 in 1969. You all did come and it was a surprise. We didn't know why we
Going there and what will they do? And how will it happen? And we didn't know anything about it - I mean yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we didn't know and and we returned from there then after returning from the gradually began to feel Wells till such time. We were being driven you see with not knowing from one step to another step we have we are to face the curve we have to prepare for the
In the transport as lodging this this and many things we were preoccupied with all these things when we returned in July August settle down after that. We had some some some little respite to think about ourselves as to where we are. What are we doing? So some people started thinking is he had be to continue to stay here. It belongs to some private owner the other change the family. What will they say? How long are we going to
Continue so we have to prepare ourselves silly. So when they came to now, this is well. What are you all thinking like that? Why where are you all going? What do you want? This is how can we stay? We we're here with Baba and Baba is no more. This is drop that idea. We want you all to stay here for all times people will be coming here and what we'll just be here stay here. So then we say, okay we continued with that such was the period at that.
Time machine
Then what happened? Is that one day money went round things of Baba that were Baba said Baba touched Ava did this Bauer did that and she came across this Kong that was still hanging over there on the post and she gave a hit to the gong. It was flat. We didn't work. She was so surprised and astonished she kept quiet. She didn't tell anybody as if she had a secret within herself. What will this think about it because it used to ring is Bob ways to enjoy that ring.
It had a real good reverberations. You see that KK that were carried over here. So
She kept quiet then people started coming soon after that, of course, the people were coming but they were trickling two three four three like that. And then one day there was a after a couple of years. There was a crowd of many here, so
I was they asked me see give us the minutest details don't leave anything unsaid whatever you all remember whatever you remember then they would provide me into this into this minute-by-minute action. And then I said well then the bill there was a Gong that we had to use and we summoned all of them. Where is that gong? Where is you still there? So I said, you know, it might be still there. So can we see it? Yeah, you can say sorry.
Somebody was there and I said, please get that gong that is still there then money comes yeses, and she tells me in vernacular but what are you trying to do with that? I said, well they want to know see it is not working. I said what she tells me in vernacular. It's not working. What are you going to show there? So I said well if it is not working will show them what it is. It was the so it's so it happened like that that that was the last ring that it gave for emergency and
Since then it died. Yeah. Yeah Tony's out of it not tone. It was flat as anything you see.
And so it was brought and said well, this is the thing. This has happened. We don't know what to do. So one of them that was sitting over there. He was scientists here physicist. So this is why don't you get it X-rayed you and we'll see there might be some crack. It must have been some accident that must have taken and all that may have fallen scratched or something. All right, we get it. The governor was going next day to the hospital and we sent the gong for x-rays.
Triplet here and there was no crack and nothing knows not even and an imaginary line was there said nothing as whole this is nothing is wrong.
So then somebody said was a metallurgist. This is look here. If you can give me the scraping I find out the molecular changes that may have occurred there. I said, why do we need all this done? And what are you trying to do with that? It is no more. So what is it?
So that's how it is. Oh, it did its purpose and it served its purpose and does no more. So then we try to just say it in a jokes as well. We it now is the time for the gong to be hung over there and each one entering the hall should ring it and the day that it starts ringing will know that it Heralds his coming again. Let's do it. So of course we didn't do that, but we kept it hanging over there.
I just went on for a couple of more years people started coming. I don't first of February each year. There's a crowd of many thousands here. That is the day you see now you find you don't see the Indians coming over here. Please don't see may have noticed that you must have had the Indians. Come only once a year. Of course, there are many strangers who come many families who come and go and all that. But real and mass you see there are Indians who take the advantage.
Of 30th 31st first and second. They are here expressly for 31st on the day that he passed away. So naturally they want to visit this place. So how is it possible for us to control 31st there and be here simultaneously we are not perfect Masters. We don't have many bodies. We have only one body. So what we have decided we are made it that way rule has been established and that is that on 31st we already
Been there where his body was taken on 31st around first we come here.
So we don't all become all don't come return but some of us myself and Alabama and following others and there are some westerners who come and help whole place is crowded or solve people all around. You see a lot of people said that time one of one such occasion one such year. Naturally they come and look at this place and that place and what is there are many newcomers also at the time as you said shall or are there.
Increasing numbers. Yes. Yes, each year passes that are many new faces. They don't know anything about it. They haven't seen but why they come they don't know they are drawn. So we have to continue to explain and repeat the same old thing and I take it for granted that you all know everything about it. We had has been said hundreds of times. You see a nice little do I realize that this is the first time a batch is hearing this. So that's how it happens confusion takes place. So then this is but what is this is I said, this is the guy
Ang that we have been saying, you know, it's the con that is died it's a dead gong so what happened again your to explode so I say this you see one such occasion, so I don't know where how many years ago after the group after group comes and goes away and all that and at six o'clock we are dead tired is you come here at four o'clock in the morning six o'clock in the night evening, you have to go back because there's a program there again, and we are now trying to close the because there's nobody here.
Shut everything and you want to run to mehrabad just at that time. I was putting the gong over there and it slipped. You see the leather strap that used to sleep slipped it slipped down and it hit the floor and started giving their loud ring against it. So Gary are Gary the guilt. He came running. This is what's the matter who rang who hit the gong I said, well something that happens it did fall down.
It seems it was in two pieces. So each piece gave the ring the same ring as your and Gary was very happy and all that and he even wrote an article. I think if you all remember in the East-West news exchange as an article, have you read it Marshall?
I don't think so. Yeah, there's an article that he wrote about it. So it was fine and all that. So it remained the two pieces remained on that shelf there for another year and then some people would come continue to come and then what happened one day. I found that piece was missing the smaller one. Tiny piece me and I said before the people departed I didn't find the piece I said, has anybody got by mistake any piece that is there the second somebody says. Yeah I have
Got it. Where are you taking me? This is when I would like to take it as a relic I said, please don't take it keep it here. This will be a relic here is so then I said it's no good. It's dangerous to leave you two pieces apart. So I got it stuck as soon as I stuck. It doesn't ring it all again.
So that's the story. So what I was saying is what I was driving at at the time actually when the Lord was here with us and he lived with us and he sat with us and we walked with him and we talked with him in silence. Whatever is it. What happened at the time we took him for granted. Nothing was the the time when he passed away the 14 people around him and then 69 they were I don't know how many people we didn't.
Maybe it's 700-800 people that came from foreign countries apart from the Indian. So that was the when we returned here. You see right was a Fair held again. What happened is as we came back here. We found his image on the tree.
Real it was it was I am a very skeptic person. I would want to believe such things. There are many things. They see here here and here these pictures and spaces and all that still. I say sheer imagination, but that I couldn't say that it's your imagination. It was as if it was a figure of Baba's head. Yeah. It was this there's no doubt about it.
So when he was in Flesh and Blood he was taken for granted some person good person. Holy person saintly person someone but when it showed on the tree, it was something great and we started bemoaning a fate as to why Bubba if you could have had the tree somewhere outside while the night we had to take the Lantern and all the show The Crowd they would file past and be in a crowd and all that sort of thing.
So they came by thousands tens of thousands from all over the places Villages and towns people and all they would come over here to see what the figure on the dream is true. Yeah, so that's how they came that fascinates human mind but his presence is taken for granted and when he passes away that he all come flying here. So, where is he gone?
That's how it is. So that is the tale of Love That is what love what we are trying to say about the four letter word loves and now people come and go and all are drawn. They don't know why they come here for his love. There is no miracle. There's nothing to show them. There's no toy that Bob has given not even spoken a word not have not even given any Assurance of vengeance.
And yet people come why do they come most probably a crazy people I should say. There's no other way to express it.
But it's to get back to that tree just for a moment. Bob actually touched that tree in that spot. Yeah, and one day it was you you are sitting not standing and some Foreigner at come some visitor at come at the time. We used to call them foreigners using some Foreigner to come nowadays. The word Foreigner is very nauseating for me. It's very foreign to me because it's
There aren't they are no foreigners. I feel yeah it is it is like that. Yeah, no Foreigner in his in his kingdom. There is no Foreigner. So he was actually you're standing there and then I patted it and says I like this tree very much is explaining to the other person. You see this tree is a good tree. I like it very much. That's the way that's where his hand reached his here. But apart from this is not the street.
Don't think I don't know whether you have heard of anything else. You have a look. Where is the key for the so six number six you have you heard that years ago? He had helped somebody to write the script. You know, there was that crazed about having a film taken a movie and all that sort of thing, you know.
And after we came and after all this had subsided down and after all that he said that while what makes them come here now just to see the tree and all the why do they come here? Why do they passed it as why do they bother us you seek on the leave us alone? Why should this tree be here and all that and one day then we had to we have to arrange things. You know, we had time at the time keep those. There are people coming. They need to have this they need to have that so half.
The Shelf comes out hold script you see in which he had asked them to write a script and he had given his own guidance there and dictation is there and in that he mentions that he's recognized because he becomes recognized now because the figure of his head appears on the tree trunk.
I said, oh so many years ago. You had said that.
Have you heard that? You haven't read it in that is that script still around? Yeah, I'm sure you I'll get you the exact words of David.
This is this.
He does first not the whole thing this man David outline of an original screenplay inspired by SRI, Maha shiv Baba written by Carl Vollmer and HS craft 19 copyright 1935 Circle Productions Incorporated 85. This is a simple story of a simple people of the lives of little group of Americans and a typically American ton.
A man a stranger comes to this town and through a series of human melodramatic incidents. This man changes the course of these plain people the lives the struggles of these people their emotional conflicts are as real as the scenes against which this drama is played. This story is based on an inspired by the ideas of Sri, Maha Baba.
The spiritual incidence of this story will be photographed according to the instructions of Sri Maha Baba and under the personal supervision of himself or his representative. It's all right. Now you're not we have no time read this.
The years go by this is the last time this is the last page last week the years go by today. If you will come to middles Ville, you will see the tree on the hill and you will see the branches covered with leaves and under the tree. You will find William and either and their baby and Goofy sitting under the tree ask them or ask anyone in Middles Ville and they will tell you about this tree the strange tale of how just a few months ago.
A man was lynched and how the next day the branches of the tree shape themselves into a profile of the face of David Lord and you will look up and you will see the face molded by some greater Sculptor.
And by the tree in the writing of goofy, you will find a wooden tablet and you will read their run I come not to teach but to awaken.
Could you play it must have been said in 34 most problems? But really so this then we can't we can't play with that Trina. It's good that they
Where did like that?
When y'all came it wasn't there when you came in 1969 we didn't know because we discovered it while she was strolling in a room. This is what is in the night. What is that and she called money and says, can you see this is yeah, it's Baba. This is here over the years. It's grown out of night I've gone on was it photographed? Well, yeah. I'm yeah.
There's a nice photograph of it.
Herbs, that was very interesting because in Mexico, there's a mere bauble of her whose name is David Lord. Really? This is named goofy. They were here and her eldest daughter comes through this child over 12 and you are sitting in the night and says, come here Asian to come come. I'll show you something. Listen. Where are you going?
I'm talking with the father sits. Oh God. No. No you come with me I said, all right. Where do you want me to go? This is I'll show you baba. Baba. Is there she comes and takes me around and on this on the pillar of this stable here this money all this. Can you see it as idea? It's good that you side. That's how it is. We don't know. This is the things they see is like that there is a picture over here the city
We will see Baba eyes and all that sort of thing. They say well not to cause this is there is this day this day and all like that you see girl who showed me one yesterday and the cage room where the old curtain had tattered and has been sandwiched between new curtain and if you open the window and let the light shine through she says there's a face this but I don't find this fight. I don't want all these places.
I want some face inside someplace. Not these faces. Yeah, there are there are people who come from bring lot of Tails and people were sent us pictures of seeing Bob has faced in the trees and the branches and leaves and all that sort of thing. You saw a rock. I found the rock is mine. Sorry has that interesting photograph of little girl holding?
Something good a flashlight and in the reflecting part of the flashlight. Yeah look at it. Yeah, it's your life that makes you see his face It's Your Love reflecting.
It's to the gospel of st. Thomas and there's this line where Jesus says split the Rock and I am there. Yeah, it is like that. It happened happening on the hill and here also, it happens. So often there is a person who comes from a publisher. This is this place and they're right in his place. There is a rock that is split and there is Bobble Stitch and many pictures have he has printed his distributed many photos of them and all that.
But it's all they really understand it. But whenever he is in our midst we take him for granted. That's what we are trying to bring and I got to talking loudly my own thoughts. He was here with us here. We knew Baba is there and all that and then what happened then it Dawns upon us and begins to grow and turns us crazy.
You found one from where did you get this but that is not anywhere near as dreary as yeah, he was at the time when we discovered that booklet after that I did I'm after that so many years ago. He has made that scorpion.
I'm good with it with trees and fill a film taken a baba walking with with I believe Harry Kim courts in the memorable Marathon series taken against whoever is photographing is and I believe it was Monte is standing inside of the window of mirrors room. Yeah and in the boat in the film, yeah, the face is quite clear yet on the tree, but it is just a
Before Bob and Grant provided you have the still here. I don't know. I haven't seen in this film. Which you see is this is it this is the tree in this beautiful gesture. You see Bob will come up and make a sweeping gesture where his hand points directly to the face, which is existing on the tree and continues on and so one one evening. We were showing this bill the center and a number of people
I saw it at the same time. So this for the first time we had seen the scope many many times before and all these voices said stop stop turn it back and we turn it back. We went very slowly very plain couldn't be plainer and it was it was nothing to be said because everyone there so the had the same sense which was it was always there and he know it was that we had missed it. We
Yes, you know we missed it until that one night when he was decided that we should know it in this bill. And so just as it is in the photograph is what film is this? What's the name of it? Memorable mirrors memorable Marathon Expo. Let's look at that. We probably have it at the CI you seen this?
Yeah, that's so great is if he's showing it to everybody.
See, how are you Chef clear? It is this attracted many tens of thousands of people. What year was the 76 very happy reunions.
People coming from different parts of the world
Broad same thing happened David at the time of a market. It's a good thing that he has dropped his body so that people converge at least one day. He has kept so that we can come together in his love. Uh-huh.
Then he was with us people used to come together you see for him.
But not in his love.
It's a great thing really. It was almost a blockage for me for a while that I didn't want to be worshipping this flesh. Yeah, that's that's stored about tells that he was thinking one night when he was massaging. Obviously, you know, what kind of God are you? Don't let your love all I want is just to see you here - I
Baba says, what are you thinking?
And he has to tell him, you know and Bob assist don't you think I know what wonderful love is they are but they're coming to see this. This is not this is not the thing.
Let me put his love is greater things.
Is the same clock my India?
Yeah, but that clock was inhuman bubbles. No, I'm not here. But it grew Prasad was the purpose that is to change. I want to go to Prasad Memorial Hall in a very strong very strong feeling of that hole is no more now. It's an it's just
Give me a call it.
Dust particle of that.
But even in that dust particle you feel something.
When did you first hear about David?
How did you here so early?
On the radio. What Baba not bother on the radio? No Baba passing away. You heard that.
And Alan Cohen had given a talk concerning drugs.
And I was sitting at school it was a Sunday evening and I like to listen to radio lectures and on Sunday evenings love times. I have radio lectures and I was tuning around and I heard him giving this talk about drugs and being around Timothy Leary and I thought this is this best discussion I've ever heard.
And then he started talking about how I got disillusioned with the drugs and it was a narrative about his life and then he talked about his meeting mayor Baba.
And was he hadn't gone or Rick Kaplin and then many start talking about Bob. It was immediately drawn to him.
Just said that just hearing that need I yes want to because I had no idea how to find out anything about every bottle and I went to the library and the only book they had a megabyte which I don't know which one it was had been vandalized and had disappeared and then you know who turned me on again to it was a few months later. Alan Wagner showed up. I said you want to see a picture of the sky says I've heard about this this made her mama.
From Alan Cohen, I've spent whoa It's coincidence. And then after that I just kept finding out more.
Hmm
What wonderful ways you see?
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Eruch Jessawalla - In Life - the Attitude
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And it reminded me of an ancient story something and it came to my mind about a certain master who was well revered by the people.
Who followed him and the people of the town and the people of the capital of the kingdom and the people of the kingdom and the King himself revered him?
And you know when perfect Master is there.
People do Revere. I don't know why but somehow or other the light is this it's but natural for them to take the advantage of the light around you can't shut it can't
So it was it was all right for years together. He was there in that case in that Kingdom and all knew of him and the revered him these to go there around him and sit around him.
He didn't go out. He didn't hold classes. He didn't have any auditoriums you see.
To collect people wherever he is the people flock around him. That was the nature.
Even if he were to go to toilet, they would be all sitting around him you see and wanting him whatever the words that would proceed from him. It would be a lesson for them. So he was so popular.
He didn't live for himself. He couldn't he lived for others in short. His life was.
Years were passing by.
And time and again he had said many things like this this tape so many times. He must have said the same thing people got fed up of hearing.
And he would continue to tell them and just as we remonstrated just now so, you know what the time we have heard it so many times it was there who is to tell us that this is please Take It Outside. Yeah heard we know who we are you see, but naturally that was the refrain so you'd say and then he stopped saying these things your style.
One day out of the blue. His behavior was most unnatural never dreamt of what he did was something had happened to him all of a sudden this great one. Not only those who followed him revered him and had great regard and respect for him loved him. The whole kingdom was loving him. The king himself had great respect and love her. So what has happened to him? And what do they find one more?
Earning him wielding a huge post and in the marketplace it seemed as if a bull let loose in a china shop is just very goes on abusing people and throwing things out and doing all sorts of things.
Obscene as well as destructive and what has happened what has overcome this?
What is the matter with him all of a sudden overnight has he been turned into a cuckoo or what?
And there was a lot of Destruction there people were very sad about the whole thing. They did not get had such great regard and respect for him. They couldn't even speak out. What's the matter with you? They couldn't even hold him and stop him and he was just going wild.
The news reached the king in the capital and naturally people had their walls because so many things had been destroyed and all this and many people were beaten and many women were molested and all that. What's the matter with this man all of a sudden?
Shouldn't the king heard this and was very sad such a wise man. A man of great knowledge all knowledge to behave like that. He was someone who's come to the core. You are called by the king. So he says, why does he call me says he wants to hear the reason why you're behaving like that.
This is very if he wants to hear Let the whole world know about it. Tell him to summon all others where I will come and explain myself.
So well King had regard for him people at regard for him. So maybe he has to give some lesson through this. Let us hear what he has to say. Why should he be able overnight like that? So all gathered there. It seems to be a large Palace to hold so many people how many people can be held there in your Auditorium in the largest one there. I mean 4,000 5,000
Of course, there was no public address system at the time, but he could throw his voice.
So when he came he was he was called invited now. We are all gathered to hear. So as he entered the king addresses him mrs. Sir. We would like to hear from you the lesson that you wanted us to learn what had happened in the Market Square there. What did you want us to notice?
This is simple.
Has this time and again four years together. I've been telling you all about your destructive nature as to how you behave and how you how well how you appear in our eyes and you didn't take notice of what I was saying to you you got fed up with me.
So I had to demonstrate how you all appear to me and all that. I did was just try to mimic you all.
What happens in worldly? Nobody notices, but this is what happens with each one of you every day and once in a while I go in the marketplace and do the same thing.
You seem to be surprised. There's no reason for surprise is the same thing that happens within you. That's what you are doing.
All what I did was to mimic you all outwardly.
They took a lesson from your follow whatever that you took you took lessened instead of taking a lesson. You took that I have gone mad. I've gone crazy.
Overnight something has happened to me.
But how must I feel when I see each one of you in that act?
That was the lesson that he gave.
This morning only with it came to my mind is good that it has come again to me.
Yeah, that's how we are all the time.
But nobody knows this so sweet. Nobody knows only I know what's happening so good. I know I can play hello and get away with it.
Nobody's going to stop me.
That's how it is. So how must he be suffering every time when he's a witness to all our attitude. He means the one who is adorning this our hearts this chair of this vacancy or this place or that place in the west and in the east and north and south wherever he is.
Each moment is his crucifixion as he says.
Witnessing our attitude in life
So we are to be alert and such little tapes and such things bring home to us bring to our notice.
The play of her mind that's how it is simple.
Yeah, Richie 1949 you were with Bob on a trip to Pune in July and you had a contact with a must called nanu. Nanu by yeah. Do you remember that story? I heard it was absolutely side-splitting for Baba in the Mandalay the The Interchange the things that would come out of and lewdness and all sorts of
So what do you like in the Johnny? Do you remember the stories? I just read a very short account of it, but it doesn't really the only story that Baba confided in US is this
Which which has been mentioned the rest of course will remain with him and Barbara.
Can I pin it on it is problematic terrible problem with me also to confide with you.
But why do you wanted that? I don't know. I was reading the account last night and suddenly it came into my mind. You have to ask garish to tell us the story about the context nothing. They say the thing Acacia was beautiful. Yeah, he was he was the one whom I spotted the near the railway station. There is a lavatory.
And you know, I had the urge and I didn't know what to do. So I just try to find out where the lavatory is. So some are other I ask somebody else's well they are the blocks are there. They go there I went there and there was a person sitting there.
What was he doing? He was all wet. It seemed as if so many people must have come and rush you see until over him.
And he was most unmindful about it because he was not aware about what's happening around him. He was transported into a different region. He was more close to reality than what we are. So I immediately I was startled, you know, so naturally I took the next block and he's myself and then I said, oh, he must be the one Kebab Arjun
To play with it because Bob allowed to love them and crush them and fondle them. So with great difficulty, we got him there and Bob has really Overjoyed to have him and be with him and it's a sight I Can't Describe other than how overwhelm the Beloved becomes you see to see his lover like this.
Here in a worldly ways. We have to cajole and we have to act and draw the attention of our beloved but they the Beloved is so overwhelmed with the love of his lover that he goes all out.
To please the lover
To serve him to love him to feed him to fondle him to give all the attention.
So that was the that's all we I Can't Describe you to you all what happens you see, it's just that in the words. It can be poured out in this way. The intensity is much more when you see it. Yeah.
And then there was another one who came who was spotted and he was broad. He was a Muhammad and this was a Hindu.
And he was also God absorbed and all that and all the love has been poured out and all by Baba and he's being fed at the time and being caressed and fondled and served and massage and all that. So
Of course, it's happening between Bob and this lover we are not concerned here. You see me help him while he's bathing them while he's giving a crop or while he's feeding them and all and then the sit together all by themselves what they do. I don't know there might be some love affair going on.
So
All of a sudden Baba calls us and we hear this description of what this man had said on that spur of the moment at the time and what he had said was if I remember right it can paraphrase it is that that which is happening within me.
But it's very abusive language. Is he?
What can I say in the presence of the assembly here like all lovers of God you see and there he says
That he uses this word. If you want me to use, please forgive me. He says
The way that the heart is being fucked you may call it only. My Lord is a witness to it.
It means the to translate it in our own languages that the way that my heart is being what you call ranged and being ill-treated. You see only he is the witness it is he was doing and he is the witness. There's nobody else to hear me. But here you pour out your love and all that. What is this?
What he is trying to complain to the Beloved that you now fondled me and you do this and do that and you take care of my body and here and all that. But what about that is happening within me is being constantly raped.
Who is he taking care of that? That's what he says, but the way he said it was such a it brought out. Yeah, no, not the anguish. He in anguish, but it had surpassed his anguish at surprise surpassed. You know, when you're when you are beaten or when you are in such great despair that you laugh out. It was that that height was there.
So he was saying it not as the complain but as
Hilarious thought you see so Baba the enjoyed that what he said was he wanted us to hear what's happening to him. Don't you take your life to be easy as hear you call yourselves lovers of the Lord see what he's saying about loving the Lord. That's how it is.
Wasn't there also a public interchange between non Ube and Ghana yea tall all that was this has nothing just same thing complaints and all that sort of thing.
But these are the things that happens.
We don't realize that we take it for granted everything. We take it for granted using.
Call ourselves lovers of the Lord, but it's not it's just
When we when I say that I love him. It's insulting him. It's not that if I were to really love him, I won't sit here and talk about love.
But even when they are loving in their own way when they just do not want they want to be just crashed and burned and consumed and all that but we don't permit them. We bring them to the Lord. That's where the it's very irritating easy because love wants to be consumed totally and is brought from there from the from that situation and put them on a pedestal there before the Lord himself.
That day just flared up.
Because in I don't know what that situation is have you'll come across in your love affairs with I haven't come across in such situations is once you are jilted or 1cr or neglected or there is indifference from the Beloved and then the Beloved temples you how you don't want you don't want to see the face of the Balaji that that's the situation. Hmm.
So that's also is more intense form in the spiritual path. Some intensified situation. Don't want to hear the name don't want to talk about it either but you still want to love all the more.
It's A peculiar situation it's not lovers quarrel is Dolores Street using complaint or whatever you call it.
Where are the gifts that the misgav to Baba? Where are the gifts that the must skip to bother you everything got here bear with us there when you did he give instructions how they should be careful. No, just keep it. Tins are there.
Once I remember
We are we were in Baroda. It's a big booty call. It's the capital of state at the time of the British Isles. One of the richest states in India Baroda, you know Guru Prasad was the Palace of Baroda. Yeah, so we are in prior to the all this happening early years. We are in Baroda this in nighttime night.
And we are going with flashlights and we had heard of great one somewhere. Where was it in the red-light District? You see he was to be found there, you know where the prostitutes are in the brothels. So we are going there with the flashlight and on the top floor or on the steps. There is yes come inside. They say thinking that we are in search of them customers you see so
He said yeah, I saw that but his his his here or is he there? So this is no you come in and we'll tell you about it. No, but Jesus it will goes on like that. It's very embarrassing situation with the Lord himself and the women they're wanting customers and all that.
But at last we did come across so somebody said his regular place, you know habitat is on the first floor of this particular flat go there and you will be sitting near the staircase. You know, after you you climb a staircase there is a little platform. They're Landing there. So in a corner, that is Place some some good person told us don't go in like that in the night. You won't be able to find him.
Would be harassed and we were harassed from here and there and all that they were calling us is so this is go there and you will find him there. So we did go there and we found him there. He was sitting there. His name was Jan Boucher can do shh. Shh means king. I don't know. Why is he called shambhu?
So there he was so he sees us and of course Baba was very happy to see him as usual and although the exchanges love affairs are going between him and his lover and all that and we are a witness to a to an extent. He allows us to witness these things to a degree and then of course when they want to be together, he'll tell us go away. So what we see at the time is this so he
He seated and Baba. Is there bending on here over him and all that and he says give me your hat Sababa takes and give it give it to him.
So then he says I want your core. So Baba takes out the court and gives it to him.
So Heap he tried he has to put on the coat, but he doesn't want to put on because he has got such shabby and dirty clothes. Where is dirty full of oil and grease and all that. I don't know. He has not changed for many years. So he removes his shirt and says you waited and then by the way is right and then says give me a trouser Barber takes the trouser out. He gives his trouser to buffer between and he wears the trousers all those clothes.
Kept also you asked about these things. You know, these are the gifts given by love with such great love. So these are the things that are there sometimes, you know, these porcelain pieces you have saucers and cups and you know, those the time of the British as we had those plates with a nice little colored things leaves and all that floral designs and all and when the plate breaks what happened, what do you call?
You use for Mosaic things, you know, so those pieces that there are musts who used to play with the year collect them. They were there all of them. So seeing Bob and they would take something Ababa and in return give that so they are kept as his gear as the gifts of his lovers and so forth all these things are there.
He wouldn't want to touch even by a long pole charged not judge.
Because we are discharged. That's the reason you would want to test is so shabby and dirty, you know, but for him it is a treasure. That's how we I say we can never know.
What is the love affair?
Real Love is different from what we have been hearing and we have been reading many novels and all novels tell us about love ourselves with this is no law. There is something Beyond us love is beyond all these things but we are apt to confuse love with sex life and possessions possessiveness. Which Beyond it is. It has to transcend all that.
What did you say as he makes us aware of these things? Not that we have learned the lessons completely but we are becoming aware gradually.
And surely that is that is the thing that is real that substance is the here all this is Shadow we all play.
The David go to to please his lover. Of course. They are they are the lovers of the Lord. He is the Beloved of us all he's a Lord but when he comes across his lover to what extent he would go. I mean he would forget the Mandalay and everything everything everything. Yeah, nothing. That is the happiest time that he would have.
His but natural for the mouth to be attracted to the light. There's nothing nothing new about it. We know it how the moths get attracted to light. I don't know whether you all have that phenomena there sure you have it there in the state's all sir, but how many of them get destroyed?
That's what ended.
We call it destruction, but that is the resurrection. Yeah.
Yeah, if you do find.
Bigger and bigger crowd that's what I was telling this morning to Marshall and Rosie saying that well that charm, you know, they are days to come you at come also those nice little small crowd. We used to be very happy with people remembering him and all that. But now the amethy occasion is such that we we get ourselves lost. They're using as if we are
Right in the midst of a battle raging war is like that. We don't know what's happening is hmm. So I was bemoaning the Fate you see of a that we have lost those that old Cham that we could be with one another and talk about him and sit and remain at one place and all he'll be gets we have no room to even stand properly. That's what has happening.
After the occasion is over and we said did my brother come I had not seen he would leave me without seeing me but what made him not come this time and surely when we will write sometimes later on so is of course I did come but I couldn't find you. It's like that. Yeah, so where is the charms that Hearts coming together?
And his love here. Now. The situation has come to this page where each on his own has his own relationship with him. Formally that relationship would give us Delight you see to be together and think of him and remember him and love him and doesn't that there is still that same thing, but we get lost.
Do you want us to help it I'm a teepee be beaten.
But as far as the crabs and think crowd control and I mean like you mentioned the other day you needed the help of everybody's this year. Everybody remained with him could be so disciplined.
Everybody focusing on him would be a great discipline and nothing nothing is to be controlled then.
But when everybody is not focusing on him and everybody is well after I didn't have my food properly. Where is the food stall where the tea stalls? Where is the flower? I must offer my flowers. Where are the bananas? Some gifts must be offered in our so then you have to we need some help for that guiding them via here. That's article 14 persons around him when he passed away unfortunately 31st, January.
Was it in that room across the yeah, and that room they have you been to that room. Have you all been to Baba's room be there? Yes Roberts somebody will take take them to Baba's in the search. Yeah, laughter laughter evening time after lunch evening means our evening is between three and six your evening is after eight o'clock after three after TI all can go so at the time.
What I'm saying is reminiscing that day 31st, January 14 of us were there and they were all divided here there and doing this and doing that the at 12:15. There was this gong that went we it was to be to summon the all the people who are there and 14 were there so we all were there because of the gong emergency gong, you know that story about the emergency gone.
Mm-hmm.
What things you see are left unsaid? I don't know so many things so there is that gong see that gong there. There are two gongs over there. There is one called the old Kong the that is known as the gong that was used when you please get ya see that that one see this gone. Yeah when this Kong came
And reached Baba in this Hall. It was sent by his brother Andy from England is from an antique shop old thing. It was the you you didn't hear the stories. So on 31st so prior to 31st January when he would be visiting this place. The news went out from here there and all that Baba needs some bills and gongs or something. I don't know how it went around and why was it because
In order to summon money or run. Oh, oh God. We used to formally shout out right now. Baba wants you girl and all that sometimes when there are people it doesn't look good. You see to shout out the names, you know that I'm summoning them money bubba wants you so then they thought of that well ring the bell and call us before different sounds yeah person. So then Baba would ya would be told that this bill Baba means money and this of course. Mm. Yeah.
So all those bills were lined up there, you know, these little bills with different notes. So with money it will be that Ting Ting Ting. Ron will be little bigger government bigger still and all that. I think ours bill is the Petit Bell that rings every three o'clock. That is the same Bell. So that's how it was. So naturally news went around that Baba hernia by the need of bells or something. Okay, that's wonderful.
So body thought must have seen this ganga somewhere in an antique shop because he is to deal with empty articles and all the furniture and all he saw it and he liked it and said, it had a very beautiful ring and he sent it over to baba baba baba baba looked at it and says, what will we do with this is surprised. You see what what are we to do with this?
Any thought of it releases? Yeah, it's a good thing because this wall separates men and women women stay there and Men stay young. We have nothing to do with them. So unless there is some emergency or anything. This is yeah, this will serve as an emergency gong emergency. So Baba called Governor or somebody money or somebody. This is look hang it over there The Veranda that is there in emergency what you do ring this?
And hearing the gong all of you. He is addressing the men men Lisa's leave everything and run to the place. So we used to do so, we remember that. So once twice Thrice what he did what he did was whenever he would go there once in a while all of a sudden they will hear this and we are to leave everything and run there because of some great emergency and then Bauer look has have all come.
I'll get me a glass of water from there, please so so you'll drink Waters is now you can go so remember when the gong Rings you all should be here. So that's how we thought that well there is some emergency over there and we should Rush fire. Yeah. So what happened? Yeah, it was like that drill, but the real emergency was 31st, January still remember must be about 12 15 or so.
And the gong rang and all rushed, of course, most of some of us were there most of them were outside so they came and that was the emergency that he had passed away.
What was I saying? Yeah at that time. We were 14 altogether men and women mind you yeah, the Lord has passed away from a midst and we have 14 and then 1969. You saw how people started collecting did the see Baba. Did you see him before that?
Did you see his body?
Why did you come likewise if you ask so many people you see you came. You came had you seen him before now. Who came? Why did you all come? Nobody knows the gong rang? It was it was so yeah, wait, I'm coming se9 in 1969 in 1969. You all did come and it was a surprise. We didn't know why we
Going there and what will they do? And how will it happen? And we didn't know anything about it - I mean yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we didn't know and and we returned from there then after returning from the gradually began to feel Wells till such time. We were being driven you see with not knowing from one step to another step we have we are to face the curve we have to prepare for the
In the transport as lodging this this and many things we were preoccupied with all these things when we returned in July August settle down after that. We had some some some little respite to think about ourselves as to where we are. What are we doing? So some people started thinking is he had be to continue to stay here. It belongs to some private owner the other change the family. What will they say? How long are we going to
Continue so we have to prepare ourselves silly. So when they came to now, this is well. What are you all thinking like that? Why where are you all going? What do you want? This is how can we stay? We we're here with Baba and Baba is no more. This is drop that idea. We want you all to stay here for all times people will be coming here and what we'll just be here stay here. So then we say, okay we continued with that such was the period at that.
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Then what happened? Is that one day money went round things of Baba that were Baba said Baba touched Ava did this Bauer did that and she came across this Kong that was still hanging over there on the post and she gave a hit to the gong. It was flat. We didn't work. She was so surprised and astonished she kept quiet. She didn't tell anybody as if she had a secret within herself. What will this think about it because it used to ring is Bob ways to enjoy that ring.
It had a real good reverberations. You see that KK that were carried over here. So
She kept quiet then people started coming soon after that, of course, the people were coming but they were trickling two three four three like that. And then one day there was a after a couple of years. There was a crowd of many here, so
I was they asked me see give us the minutest details don't leave anything unsaid whatever you all remember whatever you remember then they would provide me into this into this minute-by-minute action. And then I said well then the bill there was a Gong that we had to use and we summoned all of them. Where is that gong? Where is you still there? So I said, you know, it might be still there. So can we see it? Yeah, you can say sorry.
Somebody was there and I said, please get that gong that is still there then money comes yeses, and she tells me in vernacular but what are you trying to do with that? I said, well they want to know see it is not working. I said what she tells me in vernacular. It's not working. What are you going to show there? So I said well if it is not working will show them what it is. It was the so it's so it happened like that that that was the last ring that it gave for emergency and
Since then it died. Yeah. Yeah Tony's out of it not tone. It was flat as anything you see.
And so it was brought and said well, this is the thing. This has happened. We don't know what to do. So one of them that was sitting over there. He was scientists here physicist. So this is why don't you get it X-rayed you and we'll see there might be some crack. It must have been some accident that must have taken and all that may have fallen scratched or something. All right, we get it. The governor was going next day to the hospital and we sent the gong for x-rays.
Triplet here and there was no crack and nothing knows not even and an imaginary line was there said nothing as whole this is nothing is wrong.
So then somebody said was a metallurgist. This is look here. If you can give me the scraping I find out the molecular changes that may have occurred there. I said, why do we need all this done? And what are you trying to do with that? It is no more. So what is it?
So that's how it is. Oh, it did its purpose and it served its purpose and does no more. So then we try to just say it in a jokes as well. We it now is the time for the gong to be hung over there and each one entering the hall should ring it and the day that it starts ringing will know that it Heralds his coming again. Let's do it. So of course we didn't do that, but we kept it hanging over there.
I just went on for a couple of more years people started coming. I don't first of February each year. There's a crowd of many thousands here. That is the day you see now you find you don't see the Indians coming over here. Please don't see may have noticed that you must have had the Indians. Come only once a year. Of course, there are many strangers who come many families who come and go and all that. But real and mass you see there are Indians who take the advantage.
Of 30th 31st first and second. They are here expressly for 31st on the day that he passed away. So naturally they want to visit this place. So how is it possible for us to control 31st there and be here simultaneously we are not perfect Masters. We don't have many bodies. We have only one body. So what we have decided we are made it that way rule has been established and that is that on 31st we already
Been there where his body was taken on 31st around first we come here.
So we don't all become all don't come return but some of us myself and Alabama and following others and there are some westerners who come and help whole place is crowded or solve people all around. You see a lot of people said that time one of one such occasion one such year. Naturally they come and look at this place and that place and what is there are many newcomers also at the time as you said shall or are there.
Increasing numbers. Yes. Yes, each year passes that are many new faces. They don't know anything about it. They haven't seen but why they come they don't know they are drawn. So we have to continue to explain and repeat the same old thing and I take it for granted that you all know everything about it. We had has been said hundreds of times. You see a nice little do I realize that this is the first time a batch is hearing this. So that's how it happens confusion takes place. So then this is but what is this is I said, this is the guy
Ang that we have been saying, you know, it's the con that is died it's a dead gong so what happened again your to explode so I say this you see one such occasion, so I don't know where how many years ago after the group after group comes and goes away and all that and at six o'clock we are dead tired is you come here at four o'clock in the morning six o'clock in the night evening, you have to go back because there's a program there again, and we are now trying to close the because there's nobody here.
Shut everything and you want to run to mehrabad just at that time. I was putting the gong over there and it slipped. You see the leather strap that used to sleep slipped it slipped down and it hit the floor and started giving their loud ring against it. So Gary are Gary the guilt. He came running. This is what's the matter who rang who hit the gong I said, well something that happens it did fall down.
It seems it was in two pieces. So each piece gave the ring the same ring as your and Gary was very happy and all that and he even wrote an article. I think if you all remember in the East-West news exchange as an article, have you read it Marshall?
I don't think so. Yeah, there's an article that he wrote about it. So it was fine and all that. So it remained the two pieces remained on that shelf there for another year and then some people would come continue to come and then what happened one day. I found that piece was missing the smaller one. Tiny piece me and I said before the people departed I didn't find the piece I said, has anybody got by mistake any piece that is there the second somebody says. Yeah I have
Got it. Where are you taking me? This is when I would like to take it as a relic I said, please don't take it keep it here. This will be a relic here is so then I said it's no good. It's dangerous to leave you two pieces apart. So I got it stuck as soon as I stuck. It doesn't ring it all again.
So that's the story. So what I was saying is what I was driving at at the time actually when the Lord was here with us and he lived with us and he sat with us and we walked with him and we talked with him in silence. Whatever is it. What happened at the time we took him for granted. Nothing was the the time when he passed away the 14 people around him and then 69 they were I don't know how many people we didn't.
Maybe it's 700-800 people that came from foreign countries apart from the Indian. So that was the when we returned here. You see right was a Fair held again. What happened is as we came back here. We found his image on the tree.
Real it was it was I am a very skeptic person. I would want to believe such things. There are many things. They see here here and here these pictures and spaces and all that still. I say sheer imagination, but that I couldn't say that it's your imagination. It was as if it was a figure of Baba's head. Yeah. It was this there's no doubt about it.
So when he was in Flesh and Blood he was taken for granted some person good person. Holy person saintly person someone but when it showed on the tree, it was something great and we started bemoaning a fate as to why Bubba if you could have had the tree somewhere outside while the night we had to take the Lantern and all the show The Crowd they would file past and be in a crowd and all that sort of thing.
So they came by thousands tens of thousands from all over the places Villages and towns people and all they would come over here to see what the figure on the dream is true. Yeah, so that's how they came that fascinates human mind but his presence is taken for granted and when he passes away that he all come flying here. So, where is he gone?
That's how it is. So that is the tale of Love That is what love what we are trying to say about the four letter word loves and now people come and go and all are drawn. They don't know why they come here for his love. There is no miracle. There's nothing to show them. There's no toy that Bob has given not even spoken a word not have not even given any Assurance of vengeance.
And yet people come why do they come most probably a crazy people I should say. There's no other way to express it.
But it's to get back to that tree just for a moment. Bob actually touched that tree in that spot. Yeah, and one day it was you you are sitting not standing and some Foreigner at come some visitor at come at the time. We used to call them foreigners using some Foreigner to come nowadays. The word Foreigner is very nauseating for me. It's very foreign to me because it's
There aren't they are no foreigners. I feel yeah it is it is like that. Yeah, no Foreigner in his in his kingdom. There is no Foreigner. So he was actually you're standing there and then I patted it and says I like this tree very much is explaining to the other person. You see this tree is a good tree. I like it very much. That's the way that's where his hand reached his here. But apart from this is not the street.
Don't think I don't know whether you have heard of anything else. You have a look. Where is the key for the so six number six you have you heard that years ago? He had helped somebody to write the script. You know, there was that crazed about having a film taken a movie and all that sort of thing, you know.
And after we came and after all this had subsided down and after all that he said that while what makes them come here now just to see the tree and all the why do they come here? Why do they passed it as why do they bother us you seek on the leave us alone? Why should this tree be here and all that and one day then we had to we have to arrange things. You know, we had time at the time keep those. There are people coming. They need to have this they need to have that so half.
The Shelf comes out hold script you see in which he had asked them to write a script and he had given his own guidance there and dictation is there and in that he mentions that he's recognized because he becomes recognized now because the figure of his head appears on the tree trunk.
I said, oh so many years ago. You had said that.
Have you heard that? You haven't read it in that is that script still around? Yeah, I'm sure you I'll get you the exact words of David.
This is this.
He does first not the whole thing this man David outline of an original screenplay inspired by SRI, Maha shiv Baba written by Carl Vollmer and HS craft 19 copyright 1935 Circle Productions Incorporated 85. This is a simple story of a simple people of the lives of little group of Americans and a typically American ton.
A man a stranger comes to this town and through a series of human melodramatic incidents. This man changes the course of these plain people the lives the struggles of these people their emotional conflicts are as real as the scenes against which this drama is played. This story is based on an inspired by the ideas of Sri, Maha Baba.
The spiritual incidence of this story will be photographed according to the instructions of Sri Maha Baba and under the personal supervision of himself or his representative. It's all right. Now you're not we have no time read this.
The years go by this is the last time this is the last page last week the years go by today. If you will come to middles Ville, you will see the tree on the hill and you will see the branches covered with leaves and under the tree. You will find William and either and their baby and Goofy sitting under the tree ask them or ask anyone in Middles Ville and they will tell you about this tree the strange tale of how just a few months ago.
A man was lynched and how the next day the branches of the tree shape themselves into a profile of the face of David Lord and you will look up and you will see the face molded by some greater Sculptor.
And by the tree in the writing of goofy, you will find a wooden tablet and you will read their run I come not to teach but to awaken.
Could you play it must have been said in 34 most problems? But really so this then we can't we can't play with that Trina. It's good that they
Where did like that?
When y'all came it wasn't there when you came in 1969 we didn't know because we discovered it while she was strolling in a room. This is what is in the night. What is that and she called money and says, can you see this is yeah, it's Baba. This is here over the years. It's grown out of night I've gone on was it photographed? Well, yeah. I'm yeah.
There's a nice photograph of it.
Herbs, that was very interesting because in Mexico, there's a mere bauble of her whose name is David Lord. Really? This is named goofy. They were here and her eldest daughter comes through this child over 12 and you are sitting in the night and says, come here Asian to come come. I'll show you something. Listen. Where are you going?
I'm talking with the father sits. Oh God. No. No you come with me I said, all right. Where do you want me to go? This is I'll show you baba. Baba. Is there she comes and takes me around and on this on the pillar of this stable here this money all this. Can you see it as idea? It's good that you side. That's how it is. We don't know. This is the things they see is like that there is a picture over here the city
We will see Baba eyes and all that sort of thing. They say well not to cause this is there is this day this day and all like that you see girl who showed me one yesterday and the cage room where the old curtain had tattered and has been sandwiched between new curtain and if you open the window and let the light shine through she says there's a face this but I don't find this fight. I don't want all these places.
I want some face inside someplace. Not these faces. Yeah, there are there are people who come from bring lot of Tails and people were sent us pictures of seeing Bob has faced in the trees and the branches and leaves and all that sort of thing. You saw a rock. I found the rock is mine. Sorry has that interesting photograph of little girl holding?
Something good a flashlight and in the reflecting part of the flashlight. Yeah look at it. Yeah, it's your life that makes you see his face It's Your Love reflecting.
It's to the gospel of st. Thomas and there's this line where Jesus says split the Rock and I am there. Yeah, it is like that. It happened happening on the hill and here also, it happens. So often there is a person who comes from a publisher. This is this place and they're right in his place. There is a rock that is split and there is Bobble Stitch and many pictures have he has printed his distributed many photos of them and all that.
But it's all they really understand it. But whenever he is in our midst we take him for granted. That's what we are trying to bring and I got to talking loudly my own thoughts. He was here with us here. We knew Baba is there and all that and then what happened then it Dawns upon us and begins to grow and turns us crazy.
You found one from where did you get this but that is not anywhere near as dreary as yeah, he was at the time when we discovered that booklet after that I did I'm after that so many years ago. He has made that scorpion.
I'm good with it with trees and fill a film taken a baba walking with with I believe Harry Kim courts in the memorable Marathon series taken against whoever is photographing is and I believe it was Monte is standing inside of the window of mirrors room. Yeah and in the boat in the film, yeah, the face is quite clear yet on the tree, but it is just a
Before Bob and Grant provided you have the still here. I don't know. I haven't seen in this film. Which you see is this is it this is the tree in this beautiful gesture. You see Bob will come up and make a sweeping gesture where his hand points directly to the face, which is existing on the tree and continues on and so one one evening. We were showing this bill the center and a number of people
I saw it at the same time. So this for the first time we had seen the scope many many times before and all these voices said stop stop turn it back and we turn it back. We went very slowly very plain couldn't be plainer and it was it was nothing to be said because everyone there so the had the same sense which was it was always there and he know it was that we had missed it. We
Yes, you know we missed it until that one night when he was decided that we should know it in this bill. And so just as it is in the photograph is what film is this? What's the name of it? Memorable mirrors memorable Marathon Expo. Let's look at that. We probably have it at the CI you seen this?
Yeah, that's so great is if he's showing it to everybody.
See, how are you Chef clear? It is this attracted many tens of thousands of people. What year was the 76 very happy reunions.
People coming from different parts of the world
Broad same thing happened David at the time of a market. It's a good thing that he has dropped his body so that people converge at least one day. He has kept so that we can come together in his love. Uh-huh.
Then he was with us people used to come together you see for him.
But not in his love.
It's a great thing really. It was almost a blockage for me for a while that I didn't want to be worshipping this flesh. Yeah, that's that's stored about tells that he was thinking one night when he was massaging. Obviously, you know, what kind of God are you? Don't let your love all I want is just to see you here - I
Baba says, what are you thinking?
And he has to tell him, you know and Bob assist don't you think I know what wonderful love is they are but they're coming to see this. This is not this is not the thing.
Let me put his love is greater things.
Is the same clock my India?
Yeah, but that clock was inhuman bubbles. No, I'm not here. But it grew Prasad was the purpose that is to change. I want to go to Prasad Memorial Hall in a very strong very strong feeling of that hole is no more now. It's an it's just
Give me a call it.
Dust particle of that.
But even in that dust particle you feel something.
When did you first hear about David?
How did you here so early?
On the radio. What Baba not bother on the radio? No Baba passing away. You heard that.
And Alan Cohen had given a talk concerning drugs.
And I was sitting at school it was a Sunday evening and I like to listen to radio lectures and on Sunday evenings love times. I have radio lectures and I was tuning around and I heard him giving this talk about drugs and being around Timothy Leary and I thought this is this best discussion I've ever heard.
And then he started talking about how I got disillusioned with the drugs and it was a narrative about his life and then he talked about his meeting mayor Baba.
And was he hadn't gone or Rick Kaplin and then many start talking about Bob. It was immediately drawn to him.
Just said that just hearing that need I yes want to because I had no idea how to find out anything about every bottle and I went to the library and the only book they had a megabyte which I don't know which one it was had been vandalized and had disappeared and then you know who turned me on again to it was a few months later. Alan Wagner showed up. I said you want to see a picture of the sky says I've heard about this this made her mama.
From Alan Cohen, I've spent whoa It's coincidence. And then after that I just kept finding out more.
Hmm
What wonderful ways you see?
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