sit; how to close the eyes; how to open; etc. As for the internal, try best how to think; what to think. I have told each separately. Be very serious. If thoughts disturb you, don't worry. If difficulties arise, tell me and I will make changes.

This is not mere meditation. I am slowly leading you towards making the mind a blank, and the trick is distraction and concentration. When, for instance, I tell you to open your eyes for five minutes, close them for five minutes, and during the opening five minutes, repeat 'Baba, Baba,' for and during the closing five minutes. 'I am', it takes at east five minutes now to have your mind concentrated. The moment the mind concentrates, you have to open your eyes again and are distracted. If this goes on, then the mind becomes a blank. It is like cutting (sawing). When you saw with a file you don't simply cut straight, you saw back and forth.

To some I don't give this distraction, because for them it is better to be merged in the object, so each should do as I instruct. Remember, this is very important. During the five, ten, or fifteen minutes, or the one hour that you do it, do your best to concentrate. Because after five minutes there is going to be distraction does not mean that you do not have to concentrate for the five minutes. Concentrate; if not, where is the distraction? If you don't saw forwards, you can't saw backwards.

If in the first one whole hour you concentrate for one minute it is more than enough. But that one minute you have to be conscious and unconscious. Half a minute is worth while, so try to do it very, very seriously, as if your very spiritual life depended on it, not merely as exercise, drill, or a bore, or like taking castor oil. Clear?

Once you experience a tiny bit of what I intend giving, it will be bliss just to sit and concentrate on me. Till then try to follow literally.

Whenever any difficulty arises tell me. If there is any noise, have it stopped. Today I found some men working - noise.

External silence helps to inner silence, and only in internal silence is Baba found. Profound internal silence.

Real darkness, absolute darkness, is absolute Light. It must be absolute in and out. Do as I say. I will lead you to where I am. Only follow sincerely. Don't worry if thoughts come to you, but follow literally. It is meditation . . . as if you are on a picnic, on the mental plane with Baba- You always enjoy a picnic!

When you close your eyes tight you see different colors and shapes, don't you? Everyone does. What is it? Reflex of the optical nerve.

It is no spiritual thing, but when you don't see anything and see just blackness - a thick blackness — then you have hopes of seeing real subtle colors. Don't try or stress, just let it happen. What do you see? (addressed to D.) Nothing? When you do not see and see nothing — it is not pure nothing. When you see pure Nothing you see everything. But seeing, you see the Infinite. Through the eyes you see the sea, ocean, sky. So this ocean which you see, the big sky which you see, so vast, is in your eyes. If not, how could you use such a small medium for all this sky? You see with the mind, not the eye. The seer is you. You see through the mind, then through the subtle eye, then through the physical eye. You are vaster than the sky or ocean, yet you think you are this little sky. The sky is tiny. You are infinite. The universe is tiny. It comes out of a tiny point, called the `Om Point' and grows bigger and bigger and bigger, and then smaller and smaller. You are Infinite. This point is in you. You expand wider and wider. I see it always in everything. Actually seeing, grossly, subtle, mentally and actually.