4.5 - Worship

The educated worship leads the worshipper higher and higher so that he understands his own self and the Supreme self more and more until the Jiva is absorbed in the Paramatma. There is a considerable distance of time, stages, and a vast amount of effort between the beginning of worship and the highest achievement, and Baba worship had and has all stages in it, and all sorts of worshippers. Baba who first objected to his worship, did by his own Antarjana or prophetic vision foreseeing what was to follow, namely, not only individual benefits to millions but also national benefit, and ultimately benefit to the cause of religion itself for the sake of humanity. That is why we gradually promoted and then developed his worship, in spite of numerous obstacles.