miracles. He says, "My first and last miracle will be performed when I break my silence. It will be the greatest miracle of all times. When I perform that miracle, I won't raise the dead but I will make those who live for the world dead to the world and live in God; I won't give sight to the blind but make people blind to illusion and make them see God the Reality."

Q: Why Does He Call Himself God?

A: What else can he call himself when he is God?

He says there is nothing but God. He not only says he is God, he says that ALL are God in varying degrees of consciousness. We are not conscious of our Godhood, and continue to experience the duality of illusion. He has the full consciousness and continuous experience of Godhood, and the authority to say: "I am God!" He says that he is God in human form, the Avatar, the Ancient One who has come to redeem the modern world.

Q: How Do You Know He Is God?

A: When one has implicit faith in God and His attributes one can feel the presence of God in every little thing. When God Himself manifests as the Avatar, Christ, Rasool, Buddha, it is possible to recognize Him and know Him as God. But only implicit faith in God and His attributes and the Grace of God can make one know the presence of the Avatar among mankind.

Q: If He Is All-Knowing And All-Powerful Why Has He Allowed Himself And His Disciples      To Meet With Accidents And To Have Suffering?

A: Only when the All-knowing and All-powerful shoulders universal suffering can humanity have hope of deliverance from suffering. To meet with accidents and to have physical injuries are but the outward signs of the inner suffering of the Avatar.

Zoroaster allowed himself to be stabbed in the back, Krishna chose to be shot by an arrow, Rama made himself helpless to prevent Sita's abduction and roamed the forests in search of her, Jesus Christ permitted himself to be crucified, Mohammed was stoned by his adversaries, Buddha died of poison. And yet, the Christ - the Buddha - the Avatar, is All-knowing, All-powerful.

Meher Baba is the Compassionate Father of all, and in his Compassion he permits some of his disciples to share in his universal suffering. To the disciples it is a blessing, a divine boon.

Q: When God Is In Our Midst Why Is There So Much Suffering In The World? How Can       We Believe In Such A God?

A: Only when suffering reaches its height in the world does God manifest Himself