"Will I pass my examination?" Evariste asked.
"I am afraid not."
"Then I won't appear for it."
"No, you must go," Baba told him. "What's wrong even if you fail? Suppose you pass. What happens? You find happiness for the time being. Then again the question of what happens next? You are unhappy. So why worry? I will see to it that you pass. I will turn the key. But promise me one thing: Before going to bed every night, just think of me; then go to bed."
Later that afternoon, Baba was driven with all in his group to Otto Haas-Heye's fashion and costume design school, where Baba had previously given darshans. On this occasion, Otto and Frieda Billo met Baba there, as did other Swiss lovers.
At Feldmeilen, Baba was relaxed and paid much attention to the Mertens family, playing with Walter and Hedi's four children — Annakatharina, Wolfgang, Pieter and Tobias (Toby) — all of whom were enchanted by Baba's personality. Arend Fuhrmann, their adopted son, also had Baba's close contact during this period.
Baba would go for daily walks with his close ones, but they were usually left behind since his pace was always so fast. On one occasion, Rano had the urge to catch up to Baba as he scaled a hill. Baba turned and held his hand out to Rano. When she reached him, suddenly she felt weightless and as if floating, and together they went hand in hand up the hill. That beautiful experience ascending alone with Baba sealed her fate and she bowed at the Beloved's feet forever.
Rano remembered, "It was there, that I really began to realize that I was in contact with the Avatar. A slow process of breaking up started to take place in my being. I would wait for everybody to go to sleep and then sit outside at night alone, looking at the lake in the beautiful moonlight. I was churned inside out, upside down. I would think: 'What's happening to me? This is terrible. I can't eat, I can't sleep!' Now I understood what Ruano meant when she said she wept for ten days after meeting Baba!"
Baba had often emphasized to the Americans and Europeans, "I want only love from my Western lovers. The Eastern lovers revere me, bow down to me and worship me — but I want only love from you."