Howard Murphet asked this question to Baba : Swami, You had incarnated as
Shirdi Baba, and now you are the reincarnation of that deity eight years later.
Swami, where were You in that short span of eight years ?
Swami replied : I permeated the whole universe down to every single atom.
There is no such thing as a single place for Me. I am the whole universe.
Source : Sanathana Sarathi January 2011, Page 16
