December 8, 1978
by Adi K. Irani
Unknown location
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1. The Push of the Master
2. Inward Journey of Consciousness
3. Caught in the Quicksand
4. Value of True Conviction
5. Holding What We Seek
6. Love Baba Heart Deep
7. Can God Be Tested
8. Every Religion, Same Truth
9. The Whole Game of God
10. Living in the Present Moment
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Adi K. Irani recites an opening prayer praising Meher Baba as God in human form, then tells a story of a forgetful mother searching desperately for the child already in her arms to explain human spiritual amnesia. He points out that while everyone is essentially God, merely quoting the Master's words without direct conscious realization is an empty claim.
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Adi K. Irani explains that the soul takes millions of physical forms to develop full consciousness, culminating in the human form. However, because this consciousness becomes trapped in accumulated impressions and projected outward onto the body and mind, the soul must reverse its direction through the journey of involution to systematically unwind and destroy those binding impressions.
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Adi K. Irani explains that attempting to wipe away old impressions through our own effort is like struggling in quicksand, because every action to remove one impression creates another. He points out that only the Master can cut through this endless cycle, and reminds us that we cannot blame God for this difficult game because we are God and helped create it.
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Adi K. Irani explains that the material world and its severe suffering are like a realistic dream that disappears once we wake up to divine reality. He stresses that while devotional prayers, music, and activities are helpful, the single most essential foundation a seeker must gain is deep, unshakable conviction that God is real and present in the Master.
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Adi K. Irani Responding to audience questions, uses the story of a forgetful mother holding her child to explain that we are already God suffering from amnesia, needing the Master to wake us up. He also clarifies that creation arose from God's spontaneous whim to achieve conscious self-knowledge, generating both consciousness and unconsciousness within a single, unified reality.
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Adi K. Irani explains that while human beings cannot avoid worldly contacts, they must keep their attachment to people and worldly things only skin deep. He states that one should love Meher Baba heart deep, because holding deep love for Him naturally frees the restless human mind from getting caught up in worldly attachments.
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Adi K. Irani addresses intellectual riddles and mental games used to test spiritual authority. He dismisses the classic philosophical dilemma of whether God can create a stone He cannot lift by asserting that true omnipotence is not bound by human logic, and he recounts outsmarting a visiting politician who attempted to trap him with an absurd mathematical question.
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Adi K. Irani explains that the Avatar takes on a real, ordinary human form to share in humanity’s suffering rather than perform supernatural miracles. He speaks against religious superiority and intolerance, affirming Meher Baba’s teaching that all religions share one underlying truth, and describes how illusion constantly opposes spiritual reality in God’s divine game.
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Adi K. Irani explains that different spiritual states such as liberation and God-realization are simply different aspects of one divine reality, comparing them to waves within a single ocean or different roles in a game. He cautions the listeners against getting lost in complicated spiritual theories and urges them to focus on loving Meher Baba, recalling how Baba once shattered his own spiritual ego to teach him humility.
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Adi K. Irani explains that past and future are mental illusions that cause humanity deep anxiety and depression, emphasizing that only the eternal present actually exists. He advises the listener that while the restless mind cannot be stopped completely, one can slow down mental imagination and learn to distinguish abstract intellectual theories from direct personal experience.