Volume III  Page 181  §  Twelve Ways of Realising Me

DISCOURSES by Meher Baba

Twelve Ways of Realizing Me

1.     LONGING
        If you experience that same longing and thirst for union with me as one who has been lying for days in the hot sun of the Sahara experiences the longing for water, then you will realise me.
2.     PEACE OF MIND
        If you have the peace of a frozen lake, then too you will realise me.
3.     HUMILITY
        If you have the humility of the earth which can be moulded into any shape, then you will know me.
4.     DESPERATION
        If you experience the desperation that causes a man to commit suicide and you feel that you cannot live without seeing me, then you will see me.
5.     FAITH
        If you have the complete faith that Kalyan had for his Master, in believing it was night although it was day (because his Master said so), then you will know me.
6.     FIDELITY
        If you have the fidelity that the breath has in giving you company, even without your constantly feeling it, till the end of your life (that both in happiness and in suffering gives you company and never turns against