Two young women were brought on the 25th as possible "spiritual aspirant" candidates to travel with Baba. Baba gave them this explanation about love:
The aim of life is to realize God. How? By making the highest ideal of religion our conduct in life. This noble ideal is love. The way of love alone is the best and easiest path — to love only God and none besides Him.
Material love is good, but it should be selfless and desireless. It should not have even a tinge of desire in it. Love should be absolutely devoid of lust, and it should be steadfast and unchanging. If you are in the mood, you will be after one man today, another tomorrow and a third the day after! This is not love; it is lust. Mind's tendency is that it always hankers after change — from one thing to another, one person to another, one place to another. Have love for only one and one alone.
The girls were not chosen, but they came back several times to meet Baba. The next day, they expressed their doubts about Baba's divine state, and Baba urged them to voice them candidly. One asked, "Why do you state so often that people love you and so on?"
Baba explained:
Why shouldn't I say so? What's the harm in openly declaring the facts? Mansur said, "Anal Haq [I am God]"; Jesus said, "I and my Father are one"; Krishna said, "Ahm Brahmasmi." Mansur was beheaded; Jesus was crucified; and Krishna's words were misunderstood as vanity or self-praise. Yet, they all declared it openly to the world. I also say it.
You two have an affinity for the spiritual path. As to doubts, let them come; as long as there is mind, there will be doubts. The mind always works that way, going one way and then another. It will be steady later on when you have some sort of conviction. This mandali of mine have been with me for years and are now prepared to cut their throat for me, for they have years of my sahavas and some conviction. You, too, will feel conviction one day, and then it will be all right.
"Why is it that we had much faith before seeing you, and much less after seeing you?"
It is always the case with those who have too much love and faith before seeing me that they get cold after seeing me till they have some conviction or till the faith is automatically restored in the natural course.