During this period, Baba took the women on a return excursion to Marble Rocks.
Do you know, do you have any idea of how fortunate you are? I am sitting here with you, playing with you, talking with you, giving you my company, while elsewhere there are many who cannot die, because they want to see me! They thirst for my darshan but still I do not meet them.
There is one recluse in the mountains whose eyelashes touch the ground. He is living for my darshan, but I do not go and see him. There is another who is 700 years old, whose hair has grown so long it touches the ground, as if rooted there. He neither eats nor drinks, but only longs for me. And yet I do not see him either, though he craves to see me.
Why do I call you all here to me and allow you my company? It is because, for births on end, you underwent privations by performing austere penances of which you have no idea. That is why you are here with me now.
One day Arnavaz was reading a letter from her cousin Nariman, who was studying in England. Baba passed by at that time and asked her what Nariman had written. Arnavaz replied that Nariman was going to Germany from England for a two-year course of study.
Baba directed her, "Write to him to return to India immediately!"
Arnavaz wrote as instructed and her letter set Nariman's mind awhirl. He had received a scholarship to study chemistry in Germany for two years, and initially could not understand why Baba wanted him to come back to India so soon. But when the drums of war began sounding, he understood and returned as directed.
The previous year in Panchgani, when Goher had become ill, Arnavaz was very impressed by Baba's mercy and concern for Goher. But the next day brought quite a different impression.
Naja was also very sick at the time and Baba forewarned her, "You will die. Then, tying you up with a long rope, I will lower you down into a ravine where a tiger will come and eat you up! That will solve my problem, because now you are nothing but a burden to me!"
Arnavaz was shocked at this "cruel" side of Baba's nature which she had never before encountered. She thought: "Ordinarily, someone who is sick is comforted and consoled to speed their recovery. But, here with Baba, it is just the opposite!"