From Anita, Zurich, 13 December:
Your letters give me the greatest joy. How I love you,
my heart. Everything is nothing where you are not, and my heart weeps for you
continuously. I don't understand you at all, but my self is drowned in you
and I mean that you are all for me. Keep me close. Your child misses her daddy
so.
From Will Backett, London, 20 December:
We always feel you and your compelling love with us,
and pray that it may radiate through us to all and everyone. You have indeed
blessed me above all I could ask or think. Everywhere and in everyone do I seek
for and try to see the Perfect One you have revealed to my heart in yourself. And there you are enthroned always.
From Europe, Norina, Anita, Andrée Aron, Otto
Haas-Heye, Hedi and Walter Mertens together sent Baba this Christmas telegram:
Remembering past Christ, we greet coming Avatar.
K. K. Manekar came to see Baba on 25 December 1933.
Jalbhai, thinking he had finally found a boy whom Baba
would like, brought Bhagirath Premraj Tiwari on the 26th. Bhagirath was a
ten-year old boy from Parner village, whose mother had died, and Baba liked him
very much.
"Would you do the work I give you?" Baba asked him.
"Assuredly," the boy answered.
Adi Sr. was sent to obtain the boy's father's
permission, which he gave. Baba instructed Bhagirath to fill a clay water pot
(called a chatti ) for him each day and Bhagirath began doing so. He did
it for 20 consecutive days, but Baba did not drink even once from that pot
during this period. On the 21st day, Bhagirath did not fill the earthenware pot,
yet Baba asked for water that day.
Explaining, Bhagirath said, "I did not fill the pot
today." Baba asked him why and he answered, "I filled it for 20 days,
but you never drank from it. So I wondered what the point was."
"What else do you have to do with it if I take water
from the pot or not?" replied Baba. "You should do whatever work I
give to you and that is all you should be concerned with."
Bhagirath
learned a very good lesson and from then on was conscientious about obeying
Baba.
Bhagirath was once absorbed in thought and Baba asked
him, "What are you thinking?"