The general complaint, therefore, that one's health is spoiled for want of sleep has no value or grounds. It is only a matter of habit formed since childhood.
In India and the East generally, night is considered as the time for rest and sleep; most people in the East go to sleep early at night and rise early in the morning. The case is quite the reverse in the West, where people have more "life" at night than during the day. They sleep at late hours, mostly after midnight, after dinner parties, dances, cinema, opera and other entertainments are over, and rise very late in the morning, even having their breakfast in bed! They start work after 11:00 A.M. when practically half of the day's work is finished by people in the East.
This change in the hours of sleep and activities, et cetera, are all formed by force of habit. It would not be surprising if people through their regular habit learn to be more active and gradually lessen the hours of sleep until they know no more of sleep!
Baba seemed to be in a good mood on the afternoon of 10 April. "Humming merrily to himself, as he so often does when in a good mood," Chanji recorded, Baba quoted lines from the Persian poet Khushraw on the alphabet board and had Kalemama repeat them several times. Vishnu was told to chant the lines. Baba explained their meaning and then opened a book of ghazals to a certain poem and told Chhagan to read it.
Wistfully, Baba noted, "He who is so fond of singing devotional songs [himself] and who would enjoy doing so 24 hours a day, has not gotten to enjoy it for years!"
Baba mentioned other mystical poets who were realized.
"Kabir's poetry has a beauty all its own — simple, yet deep in meaning, and interesting. Kabir, by nature, was quiet and mild, while [Guru] Nanakji, on the contrary, was very hot-tempered. Both were Realized, yet so different in temperament. Tukaram also wrote beautiful abhangs . Krishna, undoubtedly, was the author of the Gita, but he didn't write it down. Then who wrote it?"
The mandali said it was likely handed down orally from father to son for some generations, from those who heard it directly from Krishna. Baba agreed and added that the one who subsequently wrote it out in Sanskrit must certainly have been an advanced soul, because none other than an advanced soul could ever write such a divine masterpiece as the Gita.