They remain unspent during this period.
Baba was planning to go on tour sometime in May. As if to compensate for the time he would be away, he spent nearly every day of March and April with the Prem Ashram boys — discoursing to them and giving them the immeasurable benefit of his personal company.
On Monday, 18 March 1929, the boy Rajaram drank deeply from the cup of Wine and became God-intoxicated, losing consciousness of his surroundings for more than an hour and a half. When he came out of that state, his eyes looked vacant and he refused to eat or speak with anyone. His state continued for three days, during which time he was completely unconscious of his body.
Dastur questioned Baba about him on the 26th, asking if Rajaram was as spiritually advanced as Chhota Baba.
"Oh no!" Baba revealed. "He has a long way to go before he reaches Abdulla's sixth-plane state. He has experienced an inkling of the bliss and has been enjoying it for three days. Now he experiences the gross world as a mirage."
When Dastur asked whether Rajaram would enjoy the bliss permanently, Baba replied, "He may or he may not. But this idea that the gross world is a mirage will continue to remain firmly fixed in his mind. It will not matter at all if he loses the bliss. It will be replaced by a higher sort of bliss. His spiritual progress will now be very rapid."
On Thursday, 28 March, one of the mandali asked Baba about the existence of matter, questioning, "You say that there is nothing but God, but you cannot deny that matter exists."
"Yes, I do," Baba replied. "I deny that matter exists. There is nothing but God."
"But, Baba, you cannot prove that matter is nothing. I see my physical body and your body with my own eyes. How can you expect me to believe that matter does not exist?"
The Master explained:
To your mind matter exists, but only so long as your mind is working. When you are in sound sleep, matter does not exist to you. How then can you say that matter is real? It stands to reason that it is entirely dependent on the workings of your mind. It is an illusion — nothing more nor less than the work of your mind.
Suppose when it is pitch-dark and you are walking somewhere, you happen to see an object and jump back, concluding that it is a man whom you take to be a robber.