One of Baba's ways of answering people's questions was to put counter questions to them. This was to awaken in them a quality of open inquiry so they could find the right answers for themselves, depending on the seriousness with which they sought solutions.

To some who requested Baba to enlighten them on love for God, Baba stated:

How to love God. How do you love anyone? If a man really falls in love with a beautiful girl, what happens then? No system of principle exists for him. He won't mind being ridiculed; even if people call him mad, he does not mind.

Likewise, one should become lost in longing for "possessing" God, the Beloved. When you are determined in your heart of hearts to gain union with God at the cost of life and the ridicule of the whole world, then perhaps you may be said to have entered the Lane of the Divine Beloved.

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