SELECTIONS FROM THE BIRTHDAY MESSAGES OF MEHER BABA 1954 SPECIAL MESSAGE I am never born, I never die. Yet every moment I take birth and undergo death. The countless illusory births and deaths are necessary landmarks in the progression of Man's consciousness to Truth - a prelude to the Real Death and Real Birth. The Real Death is when one dies to self; and the Real Birth is when, dying to self, one is born in God to live forever His Eternal Life consciously. Although I am present everywhere eternally in My formless Infinite State, from time to timeI take form. And taking of the form and leaving it is termed My physical birth and death. In this sense I was born sixty years ago and will die when My universal work is finished.