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no universe, no worlds, no body, no space; it was all just a shadow-play. He experiences that GOD ALONE IS. He experiences God's Knowledge, God's Power, God's Bliss. But he cannot use that Knowledge, Power, or Bliss for others or for anything. One rare one who gets that experience of Infinite Consciousness (which also includes the experience of the Mental, Subtle and Gross worlds), can bring God to all levels of all the three worlds. He brings unity in diversity, the One in the Many. That is the Christ-State. He experiences Infinite Knowledge, Infinite Power, Infinite Bliss and is also able to use it for every being in Illusion.
"In short, the most difficult thing is to begin the Real Journey. It's easy to succeed in outward journeys in space, to go from continent to continent, from planet to planet as compared to the inward journey. But this chart shows that very few persons arrive at the seventh station (Fana) and come to the end of the first journey and become God. Very very few embark on the second journey, and end it in Baqa and abide in God. One rare one ends the third journey in Qutubiat and lives God's life. The fourth journey is the passing-away as God, (God drops His Physical, Subtle and Mental vehicles), while retaining the infinite individuality. Christ, as Jesus, is as He was and ever will be, as God, because He retains His Infinite Individuality in God and as God.
"Are you able to follow something of it? If not, there's no harm, don't worry about it. Jesus Christ knew that it was not possible for men to love God, therefore He said, ‘Come unto Me, follow Me,' and that is all that is needed for you all.
"In Avataric periods, one does not necessarily have to make these inward journeys by stages. If you have the Grace of the Avatar, He just takes you from where you are to where you should be, where God wants you to be. There’s no need for “trains or planes” when He is here! "
Eruch then read the Discourse on The Four Journeys, (to be published soon as "The Everything and The Nothing"), explaining some of the points Baba had just given us spontaneously. Baba continued: “The Creation-Point is a finite point; out of this finite point the whole of the infinite Creation is issuing forth. It is a continuous process, there is no end to it. Out of a Speck in the INFINITY, called Creation Point, has sprung forth in stages this whole Creation. This world of ours is nothing but a most finite speck in the Speck. Although to you it appears to be the world, for Me it is nothing, not even a tiny speck."
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