The thousands who had come for prasad the day before had left after experiencing only the fragrance of Wine. When even that makes people go mad, what can be said about the intoxication of those who actually imbibe it?
One of Baba's Muslim lovers draped him with a sehera — a long veil of flowers traditionally placed on a Mohammedan groom. Baba looked beautiful in it and smiled broadly when it was put over his head.
Splendid food was served during the two days, and both Easterners and Westerners sat together on the ground enjoying it. The Western men and women did not know how to eat with their hands the food served on banana leaves. Memo tried to show them, while Gulmai demonstrated squatting on the mats which had been spread for lunch. A newsreel was also taken of the event by the Imperial Film Company of Bombay. Music and song performances continued throughout the day by singers from Nasik, Ahmednagar, Dhulia, Bombay and Poona.
A group of Arangaon villagers had been brought to Nasik in buses for the occasion and they performed several village dances. Malcolm, Will, Dhake, Soma Desai, and Angal Pleader delivered short speeches in praise of Meher Baba, pouring out their hearts to the gathering. This message dictated by the Master on Spiritual Birth was read out by Rustom:
The incident of birth is common to all life on Earth. Unlike other living creatures which are born insignificantly, live an involuntary life and die an uncertain death, the physical birth of human beings connotes an important and, if they are extra circumspect about it, perhaps a final stage of their evolutionary progress. Here onward, they no longer are automatons but masters of their destiny which they can shape and mold according to will. And this means that human beings, having passed through all the travails of lower evolutionary processes, should insist upon the reward thereof, which is "Spiritual Birth" in this very life, and not rest content with a promise in the hereafter.
No sooner does one recoil on himself and is eager and anxious to elicit replies to interrogative introspection, "Whither and Whence?" surely such a one may be said to have had Spiritual Birth.
This poise of mind once gained, automatically and unknowingly brings about a readjustment of material surroundings and the man finds himself in harmony and at peace with the world. Conservatism, intolerance, pride and selfishness will fall away.