When that divine wave of love will permeate in us, its uninterrupted song we will live in you, as in its way lies our whole life as the life whose emperor is you... . We talk only of you; we kneel to this dear subject; this dear subject has become our temple.
We both lay our hearts on your heart...
Kim wrote (on 24 February 1932):
Our poor minds could not conceive anything so stupendous [as Baba's beauty]; our eyes would burn up if we could only see a fragment of your loveliness. But we are content to have met you, to have been allowed to see just a fraction of what you really are. We are content to love you, even if you do not love us, and to try and serve you, not for any reward except your happiness.
It doesn't matter to us what blind and foolish people say of you; we do not love you because you are a Master. We do not want you to do miracles — for what miracle could be more wonderful than your love and compassion that can embrace and forgive even such poor creatures as ourselves? We love you because you are Baba.
Graham Stokes, Malcolm Schloss and others in New York had been asked to raise $30,000 to fund Baba's different retreats in England and America, for his trip and for his stay in America for one year. Chanji explained to Stokes (in a letter dated 23 January 1932): "It is not the question of funds at all that matters, for Baba will do his great work in America, whether funds are forthcoming or otherwise. But it is for very important reasons, as he alone knows, for the great benefit of the workers themselves in this great mission of his, that he wishes them to work, as he instructs."
In a "bulletin" in January 1932, sent to those who might be interested in contributing towards Baba's work, Malcolm wrote:
Shri Meher Baba intends to return to this country because he feels that this will be the field of his greatest activity — that in America the new consciousness will have its first blossoming, and the new civilization, which will arise from this consciousness, will have its birth. He is coming in April because, at about that time, we shall have reached the moment of our greatest crisis. There will probably be another world war, which will definitely mark the end of the old dispensation and clear the way for the manifestation of the new.
