I have been telling you that man takes the form of his psychic object, i.e. whatever is your psychic object, your very existence will be converted into that object. You should select your psychic object very carefully. There is a small animal of the lizard group. It can change its colour according to the necessity, i.e. it knows the art of natural camouflage. And what is done by that lizard-like animal? When it wants to be of a red colour, it takes up red colour and automatically its skin becomes red. You'll find that small animal in equatorial and lower temperate areas. Similarly a man takes the form of his object and this changing the form is of two kinds. One is intro-subjective, another is extro-objective. One is external projection of your thought, another is internal projection of your thought. In one case the pinnacled mind goes out­ward, and in another case the pinnacled mind goes inward. In case of extro-objective change—what does that mean?

Suppose in daytime you are in a lonely place. It may or may not be a lonely place. Suppose in daytime you are alone in a big house and some people told you that there is ... 'Ghost...ghost...ghost...ghost.' You heard it. The acoustic wave touched your mind, touched the subconscious por­tion of your mind and after that you are told, "Mr. X, there is a ghost in this house", and you are Mr. X. "There is a ghost in this house. There is a ghost in this house." Your entire nerve fibres fail to function. What will hap­pen then? 'There is a ghost in this house.' (Baba is con­veying the vibration of GHOST each time he tells there is ghost in this house.) It just touches the conscious level of your mind and as an extro-objective creation you will see an external reflection of your very ectoplasmic stuff. You will see a ghost, and what sort of ghost will you see? The description of ghost you read in your books or you heard from your grandma—granny. Ghost is like this. In broad daylight you will see the ghost. But in this case your very existence has not been converted into ghost. You are the witnessing entity—you are the seer of the ghost and a certain compartment of your mind went outside as external projection and took the form of ghost; i.e. the very structure of the ghost is ectoplasmic nature and that ectoplasm came from your source. You are the creator of that ghost. Actually there is no ghost. But you will see many a respectable man who will say, "Yes, I have seen it! Yes, I have seen it!" He is not incorrect in saying like this. He saw it, but the ghost was of his creation. Outer or external objective reflection or external objective projection or external positive hallucination—and some­times it may so happen that the gentleman said, "Here there is ghost", and the ghost may enter to your body. You may be caught by the ghost and then only an experienced exorcist can save you.

"I may be caught by the ghost and only an experienced exorcist can save me!"--this is called SVARUKTI--speaking with one's own self. Ghost, big ghost. Big black, big nails, reddish-like teeth, with a black bag in his hand and with a rope. Sometimes visible, sometimes invisi­ble. "I may be caught by the ghost...ghost." There will be internal psychic projection and a certain portion of his mind will be converted into the ghost and almost more than 90% of his ectoplasmic structure will become ghost.

There was once a witch and she died here, and her name was HENRIETTA. She has become a ghost. "Who are you? Who a are you? Who are you?", others are asking. "I am Henrietta.

I am Henrietta. I am Henrietta." His very existence has been converted into ghost and unless and until the exorcist comes, that Henrietta won't leave his body, and when the exorcist will say "Who are you?", although he is a gentle­man, he will say, "I'm Henrietta."

EXORCIST: Won't you leave this body?

GHOST: No, I won't leave this body.

EXORCIST: You have to leave this body.

GHOST: No, I won't leave this body.

EXORCIST: What do you want? Say what you want.

GHOST: I want mutton curry.

Supply her with mutton curry. Although he's a gentleman, supply her with mutton curry. Then continue:

EXORCIST: Are you still Henrietta?

GHOST: I'm leaving this body.

EXORCIST: Now what is your name?

The gentleman responds, "I'm Joseph." The exorcist ex­claims, "Ah what! Where is Henrietta?" "Henrietta has left this body."

Henrietta was a psychic creation of Mr. Joseph-- 'As you think, so you become.'

Now, if a man always thinks, "I am a sinner, I am a sin­ner, I am a sinner", then in a certain weak moment, what will happen? (Baba whispers): "I am a sinner, I am a sinner, I am a sinner. I will have to go to the hell. The priest said that he won't grant me the gatepass to heaven. So I will have to go to the hell. I don't know who will issue the gatepass to hell to that priest! If he won't issue the gatepass to heaven, then certainly for this hypocrisy the priest should also be served with a gatepass to hell!" So you should not develop the sinning complex or sinner's com­plex in your mind. Rather yours should be a positive idea­tion. I am the son of Parama Purusa. I am never alone. I am an inseparable portion of that Supreme Entity. What will happen? Your mind will be strengthened. You will get immense psychic power and with the help of that psychic force you will get affixed, by dint of your meditation and japa and dhyana. This is the positive approach and this you must do. You must not develop this complex of sinning. You must not develop the psychology of inferiority complex. "I am illiterate. I am a fool." Complex like this also makes a man weak—mentally weak. Suppose you want to do something and you say, "I will try to do it." If you grant this slackness to yourself, you will never be suc­cessful. Don't say, "I'll try!" Say, "I will do!" If you say, "I will try!", it may take more than 1000 years to develop the psychology properly to reach the required standard. So there is no question of trying. The question is of being. To be, not to try.

There was a drunkard. Everybody said, "Your liver has been much damaged. You should stop drinking." "You know everything," the drunkard said. Then he thought. First he got an internal thought wave--"Yes, I should give up drink­ing. But it should not be done from today. After two months on New Year's Day (and it is a very auspicious day) I will give up drinking on that day." What is the inner psycho­logy? He gets another two month's license to drink. He thought that at 6 o'clock on New Year's Day he would stop drinking. Now at 5:30, what did he do? He took sev­eral bottles, because at 6 o'clock he will be giving.up. Then he thought, "Let us go just in front of the church and standing just near the front of the church I will say, "I have given up drinking." But at 5:30 with a bellyful of liquor he went in front of the church and said, "I have given up drinking." Then he went 10 or 12 steps forward. Then the sinner psychology, his psychology said, "Oh my God, you are brave! Oh my mind, you are brave! You have given up drinking. You took wine at 5:30 and now it is more than 6—say 6:10 or 6:15. You are brave. Oh my mind, you are here and I should give some prize to this mind. Oh mind, I'll give you another bellyful of liquor." You see, this is the psychology of drinking. Don't be guided by this psychology, "I will try"— Be guided by this psy­chology that, "No, I won't try—I will be. I will do from this very moment. For a man, for a perfect man, each and very moment is an auspicious moment. Do you follow? What­ever you want to do, do from this very moment. Don't give any prize to your mind for doing something good or bad. Your very action is your prize. You do not require any more prize or -any further prize or any additional prize. The noble action that you did is itself your prize. Do you follow? THE ACTION ITSELF IS THE PRIZE.