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Chapter 13: Nasik & Cannes

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Baba also listened for some time and remarked, "It's all illusion — bound by time and space."
However, he appreciated the king giving up his crown for the sake of love.
They asked if Edward was listening to the broadcast of the coronation and Baba said, "Yes, but he does not feel regret about it."
During the Archbishop of Canterbury's address, Baba commented, "They [those in the church] all speak of Christ our Lord, but do not follow him."
After the ceremony he explained to the group, "Edward is free now to follow love and to draw toward me. To follow divine love, impersonal or personal, is to come to me."
Remarking on the new King George and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, Baba stated, "At least it is some solace to the people that they both have good hearts."
Baba had lunch that day at the guest house where the Jessawalas were staying, and had a heart-to-heart talk with each of the family.
Baba left Nasik early in the morning of 13 May 1937, with Adi Sr. and arrived at Meherabad at seven o'clock. The Jessawalas came to Meherabad at 10:00 A.M. and Baba spoke with Gaimai and her sister Shirin Damania about the engagement of their children. Two days later, he met with all the Jessawalas and Sathas at Meherabad, and the engagements were fixed.
Baba had further conversations with the Jessawalas in Nasik on the 27th and 28th, settling their differences and disagreements. At their bungalow on 28 May, Baba told each individually not to worry about anything in the world; he would see to everything.
To Gaimai he remarked, "I never make plans, never change plans. It is all one endless plan of making people know that there is no plan."
Sometime later (most likely in June 1937), the engagement ceremony was held at Akbar Press in Ahmednagar. Baba attended and betrothed Eruch to his first cousin, Khorshed Jehangir Damania, and at the same time, he engaged Eruch's sister Meheru to Khorshed's brother, Savak. A few of the Westerners were present at the small ceremony. Baba garlanded the couples and applied kumkum to their foreheads, and they exchanged rings before him. At that time, Eruch had no intention of marrying, but it was an arranged marriage according to the wishes of both families. To free Eruch from bondage, Baba made him enter this bond, but as Baba guided him and events unfolded, the marriage never did "bind" him.
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