Now, the point is, how should Beryl do this?
It is impossible, because since millions of births she has formed the habit of looking in one direction. Just as when you are born, you see what is in front of you and continue to see it and take it for granted. The most you can do is through your own efforts or through the guidance of walis on the Path, to change your angle of vision slightly. You will not take a complete turn, but you will shift your vision. Let us have a demonstration to make it clear. I have not explained this in India.
This is the gross plane [pointing to the notebook]. This is the subtle plane [pointing to the box]. You have formed the habit of seeing the gross world through the gross plane. Now, if Beryl contacts a wali [fifth plane mental-conscious Master], he cannot help her to turn around [inside], but he can help her to take a step backwards and see through the subtle plane. The gross world is out of sight [Baba removed the notebook]. But a Perfect Master makes her jump and she turns around completely and that is the end. With the help of a Perfect Master, she does not need to step back to go forward.
The explanation gives me a big headache. Actually it does happen this way. Those on the subtle plane have different experiences from those on the gross plane. The angle of vision completely changes, but all that is still illusion. On the mental plane, you see wonderful things. Your vision changes and you see illusion from a different angle. But you have to go beyond illusion. The gross, the subtle, the mental and God are all here. Don’t think that the gross, the subtle and mental are higher or lower than each other — all are here. It is your own angle of vision that makes the difference. You begin to see more deeply into the subtle, then more deeply into the mental sphere; and then you do a complete turn around and see yourself as infinite. Nothing remains but yourself.
Have you any idea of that bliss? It is continual, without a break, everlasting, never-changing.
-www.lordmeher.org (Revised 2014), p4375
Date and place: May, 1958; Myrtle Beach