But these few need a love and faith as rare as that of Saint Francis [of Assisi]. Let that same love of his for Christ be your goal, and love me as he loved his Master.
Delia wrote many questions about this letter, and on Sunday, 5 November 1938, Baba answered them in another letter to her:
Have you not misunderstood my words? It is true that I need no disciples here or elsewhere. I can do my work alone through the heart of man without choosing a few selected ones. But in this Avataric period, as in the time of Jesus, I chose to live in close contact with me — either here or elsewhere, it does not matter — those who have been with me from ages past, and who love me deeply, and whom I have loved since eternity.
Still, this does not prevent me from saying I can carry on my work without you. All could leave me, but the work would go on. It would make it harder for me, it would be a crucifixion; but, nevertheless, the work of love would not suffer. Nothing can stop God's work. If my own refuse or disappoint me, I must get the work done through some other medium.
You know, in spite of what you say in your letter, that nothing can separate you or all mankind from me because I am in all. And God cannot be separated from Himself, can He? But, as I have so often explained, just as the eye or the ear may be more useful and necessary to man than, say, the sense of smell or touch, so some are more necessary to me for my present work than others. I say now, as always, Kimco is my heart and will ever remain my heart, wherever they are, and you know the value of the heart to the body!
Your third point: Are you as I made you? The sanskaras you have, I gave you to work through for my work, so it is true to say you are as I made you. But the goal still remains for you, and all, to attain Perfection through duality. Remember, maya is my shadow, so indirectly it is me too. It is the means by which the soul, divine though it is but unconscious as yet of its divinity, must become conscious of its oneness with God.