Although thousands attended the function, one and all felt this wave of love and happiness. That feeling, is indescribable. It must be experienced.
Although music was being performed and crowds were milling everywhere, Baba's eyes missed nothing. How could eyes which swept the universe at a glance, miss something or someone so near? One old woman, after receiving prasad, queued up again. Seeing her red palm, Vishnu was about to remove her when Baba immediately stopped the line, called Vishnu and slapped him!
This deeply moved the old woman and she burst out, "O God! Forgive my offense. It is not his fault, it is mine. I am coming to you for prasad for the second time!" At this, Baba embraced her and directed Vishnu to feed her two children, and also to call the woman and her children back the next day for food.
When the distribution of prasad was over at six o'clock, Baba left the pavilion and went to inspect the arrangements for the next day's feast and activities. It was near midnight when Baba called the Western lovers to the main house. Baba was lying prostrate on a couch, exhausted. When the Westerners gathered around him, he pulled himself up with obvious effort and then slumped back down on the couch with his eyes closed. The lovers' hearts were full at seeing Baba give darshan for ten hours continuously (barely stopping for a fifteen-minute lunch break), and then knowing he labored for hours more, and they beseeched him to rest.
But again, Baba pulled himself up, passed his hand over his eyes, inhaled deeply and then looked at each and spelled out, "I want to talk to you about today's activity and what it signifies for my Universal work."
The Westerners pleaded with him to defer the explanation until the next day when he would be rested, but Baba insisted that now was the right time and began dictating:
The universal mind and infinite consciousness have infinite ways of working universally. Whatever work One who has a universal mind or infinite consciousness does is reverberated through the universe and produces reflex actions. If he fasts, the result of fasting is felt throughout the universe spiritually. A Master's working is always for the spiritual end. If he observes silence the same result is brought about.