Finding Chanji shedding tears, she was surprised and asked Baba the reason.
Baba slyly spelled out, "Look what love Chanji has for me! Whenever he finds me alone, he cannot prevent himself from crying. His longing is terrible, so he sheds tears of love. These are his tears of longing."
This statement greatly impressed Miss Skey who then also began crying. Baba directed Chanji to calm the woman. How could she know the facts behind poor Chanji's beating? Chanji's heart was frightened of love!
After leaving England, Chanji kept the close ones in London informed of the Master's activities, and his letters were greatly appreciated. They served to keep Baba close to them during their pain of separation. On 10 October, Kitty wrote in reply to one of Chanji's letters: "Life goes on as usual truly, but not in the usual way. All is somehow different. All is for Baba now — be it work, play, rest or sleep." Kitty had indeed begun to surrender all to Baba, as evidenced by this message written on 27 October 1931:
Dearest and beloved Baba,
Yes, it is wonderful our love for you, but who is it that has given us the power to love so deeply? Is it not a divine gift from you to us, Baba? Make us more and more worthy of it. Even in this short while, there seems no minute of the day where the urge to dwell on you and to love you more and more perfectly is not present. I thank you always, always for the greatest of all God's gifts — Himself to love and serve.
Kim had also been deeply affected by meeting Baba. She wrote to Chanji on 29 October:
How can we ever thank you enough for the beautiful letter you wrote to Kitty and Kim & Company? I can only say thank you, dear Chanji, again and again, and tell you that our tears of mingled joy and sorrow fell upon your letter as we read it. Tears of joy for the great blessing that had come to us through the infinite compassion of our beloved Baba, and tears of sorrow because we are not worthy of so great a happiness and that our love for him is so weak.
We can only pray that we may be allowed to love him more, that the fire of his love may burn up all that is ourselves, so that at last nothing but Baba may remain.