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"The man immediately hurled himself over the cliff. Babaji instructed
the shocked disciples to fetch the stranger's body. When they
returned with the mangled form, the master placed his divine hand
on the dead man. Lo! he opened his eyes and prostrated himself
humbly before the omnipotent one.
"'You are now ready for discipleship.' Babaji beamed lovingly on
his resurrected chela. 'You have courageously passed a difficult
test. Death shall not touch you again; now you are one of our
immortal flock.' Then he spoke his usual words of departure, 'DERA
DANDA UTHAO'; the whole group vanished from the mountain."
An avatar lives in the omnipresent Spirit; for him there is no
distance inverse to the square. Only one reason, therefore, can
motivate Babaji in maintaining his physical form from century to
century: the desire to furnish humanity with a concrete example
of its own possibilities. Were man never vouchsafed a glimpse of
Divinity in the flesh, he would remain oppressed by the heavy mayic
delusion that he cannot transcend his mortality.
Jesus knew from the beginning the sequence of his life; he passed
through each event not for himself, not from any karmic compulsion,
but solely for the upliftment of reflective human beings. His
four reporter-disciples-Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John-recorded the
ineffable drama for the benefit of later generations.
For Babaji, also, there is no relativity of past, present, future;
from the beginning he has known all phases of his life.
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