The following exchange
took place at a Bhau Kalchuri Internet chat based in Chicago in 1999 (I edited it a little).
Someone online asked
Bhauji: “How can we tell when it’s Baba’s treatment, or it’s mental or
emotional illness?”
Bhau replied: “Because
then, when it is Baba’s treatment, the suffering is because of love. The pain
you experience, it gives you joy. You want the pain and you don’t want it at
the same time. You don’t want to get rid of this pain; you want to love Him
more and more. Just like when you get itchy, you scratch, and when you scratch
you get pain, but you go on scratching because you love that pain. In the same
way, when love is there for God, then you suffer, because the longing is there
to be united with God. The fortunate ones get this blissful agony.
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