- (When giving three young Parsi boys the sadra and kasti or sacred thread for them to wear): May Ahuramazd, Zoroaster, Meher Baba, free you from the superficial binding of Shariyat (rites and rituals), and help you to lead a life of Good Thoughts, Good Words and Good Deeds, and bestow on you the grace of loving Baba. I have given you this emblem of superficial binding, to make you free from this binding, and give you the real binding of Love.
- Love and understanding never condemn, but seek to help and encourage. Men and women have departed from the custom and laws of Truth and goodness, but God never condemns us or turns us from His door, so we should not condemn even those who condemn us. I bless you to try to understand and love those who are trying to help you to take your place in God's work through serving His humanity. (Message to a Hindu Women's Rescue Home).
- (Message to a Catholic Father who has dedicated his service to the cause of destitute children): By serving the abandoned you are serving Jesus the Christ, because He too was abandoned by all, even by His own apostles. The emblem of abandonment is the Cross. Hence, to serve the abandoned is to serve the Christ—and I am He, undoubtedly. (When the Father repeated the message word for word at Baba's request, he left out the last line, at which Baba reminded him he had left out the most significant part and Baba repeated, "I am He, undoubtedly.")
WHAT IS WORTHWHILE?
By A. K. Das
Life is an opportunity, and we all want to do the best we can with it and make the most of it. But how to accomplish this with the limited resource at our command? Therefore, we must make a choice: what is really worth while? We are constantly asking ourselves this question, as we go on with our lives. Time slips away in useless or misdirected effort, in experiment, in idle thought. Life is harder to handle than we thought at first. Duty is not always so clear, nor work so well-defined. One is baffled when one finds theories fail, and cherished ideas delude; and yet, one's experience is not sufficient for detecting just where the defect lies.
Life is large and we cannot possibly grasp the whole of it in the few years that we have to live. What is vital? What is essential? What may we
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