Afterwards, he was driven to the Parsi bangli, where he had the car stopped outside. Baba remained seated in the car as the body [of Papa Jessawala] was taken in a procession to the Tower of Silence. After watching the procession for a few minutes, Baba remarked, “The work is completed.”
He then asked Eruch, “What happens after you eat?”
Eruch said, “You digest your food and then defecate the waste.”
Baba explained, “The body is to the soul as the waste material is to the food. The body eventually becomes the feces of the soul. How do you feel after you go to the toilet?”
“Relieved and happy.”
“The soul, too, feels happy and relieved to be free of the body. That is how one should feel about anyone’s death.”
—www.lordmeher.org, p4551
May, 1959; Poona