最后宣言

美赫嘉童

最后宣言
——1954年9月30日

我不是来创建任何的新事物，而是把生命注入旧事物。我不是来建立静修院或修道场。我为了我的宇宙工作而建造它们，一旦目的达到，即刻拆除。

整个宇宙都是我的修道场，每一颗心都是我的住所；但只有在除我之外不存一物的心中，我才会显现。

当我的爱之宇宙宗教日趋式微时，我来给它注入生命，并且结束以宗教的名义玷污它、用仪式教规窒息它的教条闹剧。

当前的世界性混乱和骚动使人心愈加渴望权力，贪图财富和声名，从而带来难言的苦难、仇恨、妒嫉、绝望和恐惧。世界的痛苦已达至顶峰，虽然传播和平繁荣、争取持久幸福的努力不断。

人要想瞥见永恒的幸福，就必须首先认识到神无所不在，无所不知；认识到惟有神在通过万人做出行动与反应；认识到正是神在无数的有生命和无生命实体的外衣之下，体验着无数不同的痛苦与幸福现象；认识到正是神本身在经历着这一切的虚幻发生。因此，把人类痛苦体验推向顶峰的是神，消灭这种虚幻的痛苦，并把虚幻的幸福推向顶峰的也唯有神。

无论是显现为造物界，还是消失于实在之一体中；无论被体验为真实的存有，还是被视作虚假的非有，幻相自始至终都是幻相。它没有止境，一如想象没有止境。

在幻相里的体验有两个方面——“多元性”与“一体性”。多元性成倍地增加，一体性也不断地扩大自身。多元性是使幻相兴盛的幻相之宗教。

在时间的虚幻开始，幻相中没有像今天这样的一团糟。当意识进化开始时，尽管幻相里存在着多元，但也存在着一体性。随着意识的增长，多元性也不断地增加，直到现在它即将超限。如同达到顶峰的浪潮一样，多元性的顶峰也将瓦解自身，并且带来幻相中一体性的开始。痛苦达至顶点时，将给幻相中的这个多元性高峰带来毁灭。

多重的分离性阻止着人类对团结博爱的体验，它的注定的毁灭时间已到。即将发生的这个毁灭将消灭世界的四分之三。剩余的四分之一将共同过着和谐互爱的生活，并且在全人类中建立一体感，把他们引向永久的幸福。

在我打破沉默之前或之后不久，世界的四分之三将被毁灭。我将很快开言，以实现即将发生的一切。

目前人类的生活已完全陷于幻相的多重性里。申明宗教信仰，创办协会或举行会议，都绝不会给人类生活带来一体感。要在多元性中建立一体感，惟有通过触动心灵的内核才能达到。我就是为此工作而来的。

我是来把爱的种子播在你们心中，以便通过爱而在世界上所有国家、信条、宗派和种姓之间建立一体感——尽管你们必须在幻相生活中体验与经历所有这一切的表面多元。

为此，我正在为打破沉默做准备。当我打破沉默时，它不会给你们的耳朵灌满灵性说教。我仅仅将道出一言（Word），这一言将渗透所有人的心灵，甚至连罪人都会感到他本应是圣人，而圣人将知道神在罪人内里，一如在圣人的内里。

当我道出那一言时，我将为未来七百年间将要发生的一切奠定基础。当我七百年后再次来时，意识的进化程度将达到一个顶点，以至物质主义倾向将自动转化为灵性渴望，灵性博爱的大同感将获胜。这意味着现已达至极限的富裕与贫穷、文化与文盲、嫉妒与仇恨等，都将消融于众生之间的一体感里。那时繁荣与幸福将达至顶点。

然而，这并不意味着在幻相中的一体感将永远地如此保持下去。这是因为所有这一切都是幻相，幻相里的一体和多元意识乃是进化过程的一部分。幻相中的多元性和一体性的开始、发展和终结注定将会重复发生。

我放弃这个肉身之后，将在七百年之后再次降临，那将标志着一个周期之周期的结束与开始。幻相中的所有时间周期，都开始并结束于700年到1，400年之后。在个周期之周期中，曾经有过且将会有亿万个这样的周期；因此幻相是无止境的，并且永远是幻相。

自古至今，我来到人类中间，就是为了维持我自己所创造的幻相，并且唤醒人类意识到这一点。幻相的框架总是同一个，但幻相中的图案却不可计数且不断变化。我的降临不是为了消灭幻相，因为幻相本身绝对什么都不是。我是来让你们意识到幻相的虚无性。通过你们，我自动地维持着幻相——它只不过是我的无限大我的影子；通过我，你们意识到幻相的虚假性，从而自愿抛弃之。

作为本时代阿瓦塔，我的显现将是短时期的。这个短时期将包括我的受辱、我的沉默的打破、我的荣耀与暴死。我永恒地拥有神圣极乐，却为了一切万物而永恒地受苦——因而我永恒不断地在十字架上受难。

在这个短时期内，我的万言之言将触动所有人的心，这个神圣感动将自发地给人类注入一体感。在下一个七百年期间，这种一体感将逐步取代分裂倾向，并将统摄所有人的心，驱走造成痛苦的仇恨、妒嫉与贪婪。幸福将统领人间。

The Final Declaration  
Given by Meher Baba on 30 September 1954

I am very happy to have you all here.
I know that many of you have come to Meherabad under very difficult circumstances. Some of you have covered thousands of miles, and even crossed continents to be at Meherabad today. It is your deep love for me that has braved all obstacles and prompted you to sacrifice your comforts and conveniences to honor my call and to be near me today.

I am deeply touched by your devotion, and I am proud of the hearts that contain such love and loyalty.

There are many more devoted hearts like yours yearning to be present here, but these are not to be seen in your midst today. I know that in spite of their intense desire to be near me, they could not possibly come for one reason or another. Therefore they depend on you to convey to them in detail all that you see and hear during these two days of unique opportunity that has fallen to your lot. I trust you will not fail them.

Although you are present here with all love and faith in me, and though you feel blessed to have my personal contact, yet I know that you will not realize today, as you ought to, the true significance of my call and your presence here at this juncture. Time alone will make most of you realize, not many months from now, the significant importance of this assembly.

The time is fast approaching when all that I have repeatedly stressed, from time to time, will definitely come to pass. Most of you will witness those events, and will recall very vividly all that transpires during these two days of your stay at Meherabad.

I have not come to establish anything new; I have come to put life into the old. I have not come to establish retreats or ashrams. I create them for the purpose of my Universal work, only to repeatedly dissolve them once that purpose has been served.

The universe is my ashram, and every heart is my house, but I manifest only in those hearts in which all other than me ceases to live.

When my universal religion of love is on the verge of fading into insignificance, I come to breathe life into it, and to do away with the farce of dogmas that defile it in the name of religions, and stifle it with ceremonies and rituals.

The present universal confusion and unrest has filled the heart of man with greater lust for power and a greed for wealth and fame, bringing in its wake untold misery, hatred, jealousy, frustration and fear. Suffering in the world is at its height, in spite of all the striving to spread peace and prosperity to bring about lasting happiness.

For man to have a glimpse of lasting happiness, he has first to realize that God, being in all, knows all; that God alone acts and reacts through all; that God, in the guise of countless animate and inanimate entities, experiences the innumerably varied phenomena of suffering and happiness. Thus, it is God who has brought suffering in human experience to its height, and God alone who will efface this illusory suffering and bring the illusory happiness to its height.

Whether it manifests as creation or disappears into Oneness of Reality, whether it is experienced as existing and real, or is perceived to be false and nonexistent, illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.

There are two aspects experienced in illusion – manyness and oneness. While manyness multiplies manyness, oneness goes on magnifying itself. Manyness is the "religion" of illusion on which illusion thrives.

In the illusory beginning of Time, there was no such state of mess in illusion as there is today. When the evolution of consciousness began, there was oneness, in spite of the diversity in illusion. With the growth of consciousness, manyness also went on increasing, until now it is about to overlap the limit. Like the wave that reaches its crest, this height of manyness will dissolve itself and bring about the beginning of oneness in illusion. Suffering at its height will cause the destruction of this climax of manyness in illusion.

The time has come for the preordained destruction of multiple separateness which keeps man from experiencing the feeling of unity and brotherhood. This destruction, which will take place very soon, will cause three-fourths of the world to be destroyed. The remaining one-fourth will be brought together to live a life of concord and mutual understanding, thus establishing a feeling of oneness in all fellow beings, leading them toward lasting happiness.

Before I break my silence, or immediately after it, three-fourths of the world will be destroyed. I shall speak soon to fulfill all that is shortly to come to pass.

To affirm religious faiths, to establish societies, or to hold conferences will never bring about the feeling of unity and oneness in the life of mankind, now completely absorbed in the manyness of illusion. Unity in the midst of diversity can be made to be felt only by touching the very core of the heart. This is the work for which I have come.

I have come to sow the seed of love in your hearts so that, in spite of all superficial diversity which your life in illusion must experience and endure, the feeling of oneness through love is brought about amongst all the nations, creeds, sects and castes of the world.

In order to bring this about, I am preparing to break my silence. When I break my silence, it will not be to fill your ears with spiritual lectures. I shall speak only one Word, and this Word will penetrate the hearts of all men, and make even the sinner feel that he is meant to be a saint, while the saint will know that God is in the sinner as much as He is in himself.

When I speak the Word, I shall lay the foundation for that which is to take place during the next seven hundred years. When I come again after seven hundred years, the evolution of consciousness will have reached such an apex that materialistic tendencies will be automatically transmuted into spiritual longing, and the feeling of equality in spiritual brotherhood will prevail. This means that opulence and poverty, literacy and illiteracy, jealousy and hatred, which are in evidence today in their full measure, will then be dissolved through the feelings of the oneness of all men. Prosperity and happiness will then be at their zenith.

This does not mean that oneness in illusion shall remain so eternally. This is because all this that is, is illusion. The consciousness of oneness, as well as manyness in illusion, is part of the process of evolution. The time is bound to recur when there will be again the same beginning, growth and culmination of the heights of manyness and oneness in illusion.

My next advent, after I drop this body, will be after seven hundred years, and that will mark the end and the beginning of a cycle of cycles. All cycles of time in illusion end and begin after seven hundred to fourteen hundred years. There have been and will be millions and billions of such cycles in a cycle of cycles. Thus, there is no end to illusion, which always remains illusion.

Age after age, I come amidst mankind to maintain my own creation of illusion, thereby also awakening humanity to become aware of it. The framework of illusion is always one and the same, but the designs in illusion are innumerable and ever-changing. My advent is not to destroy illusion because illusion, as it is, is absolutely nothing. I come to make you become aware of the nothingness of illusion. Through you I automatically maintain illusion, which is nothing but the shadow of my Infinite Self, and through me you automatically discard illusion, when you are made aware of its falseness.

My manifestation as the Avatar of the time will be of short duration. This short period will, in quick succession, cover my humiliation, the breaking of my silence, my glorification and my violent physical end. Everlastingly, with all the divine bliss within me, I eternally suffer for one and all – thus I am crucified eternally and continually for all.

During this short period, my Word of words will touch the hearts of all mankind, and spontaneously this divine touch will instill in man the feeling of the oneness of all fellow beings. Gradually, in the course of the next seven hundred years, this feeling will supersede the tendency of separateness and rule over the hearts of all, driving away hatred, jealousy and greed that breed suffering, and happiness will reign.