essential marrow for an aspirant of the Path—is not possible, the last and least best thing is to take recourse to the bare bones of one's religion and live one's life in accordance with it.

"The best thing for the mandali is to obey me and go on obeying me to the last ... I know how difficult that is . . . I do not often obey Me myself ... but even if a few amongst you succeed in really obeying your Baba, you will indeed make him truly great."

"There are few among the purely intellectual who can establish a life of obedience to a Perfect Master, and fewer still who can main­tain it. This is because, although intellect and reasoning are a help to a man in arriving at the decision to follow the Master, man is invariably misled when he tries to prove or disprove the perfection of the Master solely through reasoning. The utmost reaches of the human intellect cannot go beyond the gross sphere. Through intellect alone man can never penetrate the materialism of life, no matter how fine are the limits of things reached by man.

"The Perfect Masters, who are one with God, and the innermost core of everything in existence, are beyond the gross as much as they are beyond the subtle and mental spheres that go to make up the illusion of creation as a whole.

`These explanations and discourses and all else that I say about Reality are but a play of words. If one tries to grasp Truth through words only, one is bound to miss it because it is beyond mind, and mind, the inner man, is not just brain. Although the brain is the seat of the intellect, yet by itself the brain is but a piece of mechanism composed of matter belonging to the outer man.

"Transcending the intellect is not the same as going mad. In madness the faculty of reasoning is impaired—it does not disappear. Even the mad and utter idiots think, though wrongly; and so they abuse, cry, laugh, etc. in an unbalanced manner. Man's intellect has evolved out of his consciousness. His consciousness has not emanated from his intellect.

"Becoming free from the limitations of the intellect does not necessarily mean becoming void of intelligence or losing the power of