In the event any of you are feeling indisposed, you should report at once to Norina, and she should give it her immediate attention and either utilize Garrett's stock of medicines or send for a doctor if it is anything serious. Norina should give me a detailed health report when I come every week.
In the afternoon from three to five o'clock, Baba took them on a tour of the city of Nasik, showing them the Gangapur River and other sights. By the river, Baba sat down on a rock near the waterfall and the Westerners quietly and respectfully sat around him.
The Deshmukhs had come to Nasik and also had a meeting with Baba that day. Indumati asked Baba, "Why do I not feel inwardly convinced about God, Truth and spirituality, although I am fond of reading about these subjects and am intellectually satisfied?"
Baba replied, "It needs actual Experience, without which you will never feel convinced inwardly."
The next day, Friday, 1 January 1937, Baba spoke to the Westerners again about living together harmoniously:
Love for a Perfect Master, however deep or devotional it may be, does not necessarily affect the original nature of a person because, despite apparent superficial changes, the individual nature remains the same up to the seventh plane. On the seventh plane there is no individual mind, therefore no individual nature. This nature is so powerful that it continually tries to assert itself, and being inherently beyond one's control, even influences the expression of pure love by often assuming irritating and embarrassing forms.
So, in order to keep the love of my disciples for me unalloyed, I have to humor less noble qualities of human nature such as jealousy, pride, anger, et cetera. Otherwise, there is always the danger of these qualities gaining supremacy over love and changing it into a feeling of opposition, thus creating hindrances in my work. For instance, [K. J.] Dastur and Herbert [Davy].
There were differences and strife among the Westerners almost daily during the Nasik period, but this discord had its purpose, as Age explains: "The Avatar comes to sweep the world clean — to cleanse the human mind and purify the heart. Through his circle members, Baba was sweeping the world, collecting the refuse at one place, so to speak, so that it could be disposed of easily. His 'broom' touched their innermost beings and the dust of their egos surfaced.