As was their usual habit, they stood outside the main building and watched Baba get out of the car. He motioned them not to come and embrace him, as they sometimes did, because he was working internally. He instructed them to be completely silent, but he did allow them to sit around him on the steps of the porch.
Elizabeth's dog Kippy was usually around Baba when he was in Nasik. The dog walked up to him and she licked his feet. Baba took her in his arms for a moment.
After a short while, Baba asked where Kitty was. She had gone for a walk, but it was already dark and she had not yet returned.
Baba led the group to sit in the garden and asked again, "Where is Kitty?"
After a few moments, Baba left and retired to his room, directing one of them to give Kitty a message, "Tell Kitty she is wonderful in all ways, good and bad!"
Despite the group having been together for four months now, differences and petty quarrels persisted in the Nasik ashram. On the afternoon of Tuesday, 13 April 1937, Baba mentioned this problem and explained the difference between needs and wants:
As I said this morning, it is time we started dying. Dying not the ordinary death, but the "death" of low desires. It is all bliss everywhere, but all are miserable because of ignorance which forces one to fulfill desires. Yet the goal of each and everyone is to attain the state of desirelessness. Is it clear? It is all happiness, infinite unfathomable bliss when you desire nothing. Let desires die — but how?
You want millions of things. You say, "I want this, I want that." If you were to keep an account of your wants — my God! Needs are not wants. Everything beyond needs is wants. And wanting inevitably leads to suffering.
So try your best, your very best to want less and less of that which is beyond your needs. Try loving and loving more and more, and then you will want less of that which is beyond your needs and want more love. Try seriously. It will all be bliss if you don't want anything. But you must try consciously. The stone wants nothing, but wants nothing unconsciously.
Let us begin by dying! The more you want, the more miserable you are. If you think seriously for just five minutes of all the things you have wanted during your life, of what you have gotten, and what you did not get and today ask yourself if you are satisfied with life.