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The Bubble and the Ocean 5
“The mind sees separateness, duality; but there is another way of experiencing reality—as unity. It is through the heart, by the process of love. Love reaches out to merge with the other; two become one. Love sees unity. For the limited little wavelet self to know that it is the ocean, it must merge back into the ocean—through love.
“The scientist says, ‘What is this’—this which lies in the outer world and is seen through the senses. The spiritual aspirant says, ‘What is that’—that which lies beyond the outer world and the senses, beyond duality and the mind as well. ‘That’ is the ocean from which all ‘this’ arises.”
Baba asked, “Why is it that everybody says ‘I’?” And then pointing to some of us in the room for emphasis, he continued, “She says I, he says I, I say I, you say ‘I’; we all look different but there is this common sense of I’-ness. What is the meaning behind this? We have to look beyond this constantly changing world of different names and forms in order to see the underlying, unchanging and immutable reality: the reality that always was and always will be, the underlying unity which gives rise to all this diversity. How can the scientist with his mind try to grasp unity. The mind sees separateness; love sees unity. The only way that the wavelet can know the ocean is to merge back into it—to become one with it. Love is the way; merge with love, through your devotion to God.”
Baba paused a moment and then became more animated. “My name is Sathya, truth. I represent that which is beyond mind. I have come to show you who you are—the reality that lies beyond mind. How can a scientist comprehend me? I am all places at all times—everything that ever was or will be. 1 can transmute the earth into sky and the sky into earth.” He paused a moment with a playful twinkle in his eye. “But I don’t do it often because it causes inconvenience to some people.”
We all laughed and Baba was immensely joyful with our happiness. He continued, “How can the scientist understand my reality? See, how can you understand this?” And with that Baba became even more animated and began to move his hand in a large circle in the air. In a startling, electrifying instant he was holding a beautiful silver ring. It had come as if in a flash


































































































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