“Last evening when the pain was bad, Baba said, ‘The accident has been a blessing for the universe, and a curse for Baba.’
… He said to the effect that all suffering borne by Baba is out of his compassion and love for humanity. The suffering yet to come for the world will be so great that it could not sustain it, and so Baba takes one end of the yoke on his shoulder.” (As told by Mani) (How A Master Works, p294)
“I got my physical bones broken so as to break the backbone of the material aspect of the Machine Age, keeping intact its spiritual aspect.” (www.lordmeher.org, p4487)