stunned by the wonder of it all and I did not even see Baba until the disciple took me over to Him.

That wonderful love of Baba kept pouring over me and over me and when I looked into His eyes I knew that, as Kabir says so aptly, "From the beginning to the ending of time, there is love between Thee and me and how shall such love be extinguished?" It was the 'homecoming' and although since that moment in time the play of my sanskaras has taken me far afield from the Beloved, my Lord's sweet love always brings me home again without too many scars.

This is my word to those of you who have not yet met Baba. The Lord is truly here again, as He promised, and we are all held in His love, today, tomorrow and always ... Avatar Meher Baba ... Ki Jai!

SPARKS OF THE TRUTH

(continued from Volume 12 Number 1 Page 37)

The powers which the yogis use are based upon an energy which is comparable to electricity, though it is different from and much more powerful than electricity, which is under the control of scientists. However, for the purposes of intellectual explanation, we might look upon that energy as a sort of 'electricity', which is in the third layer of the world and is inexhaustible. By means of breath control and other practices, the yogis combine this inexhaustible source of cosmic energy or 'electricity' with the energy or 'electricity' in the third layer of their own body. And this combination enables them to perform many miracles.

After combining the two stores of energy or 'electricity, the yogis have merely to think to obtain the desired result. Any desire, which they bring into their mind, finds its immediate fulfillment. They can read the past and the future. They can read the minds of others. They can see or hear happenings from any distance, e.g. they can see from America what one is doing in India. They can split up stones into pieces. They can even raise the dead. As compared with the limited powers of human beings, these powers are indeed very great. But they have nothing to do with the Truth or with true spirituality. The Truth is far beyond the exercise of such powers.

The yogi can make things appear entirely different to you from what they really are. It is like putting colored glasses on your eyes, so that a thing, which in fact is white, appears to you to have the color of the glasses you are wearing. There