Here there are eleven !"
Baba joked, "So, you are still interested in solving such things? When I, in spite of being God, committed so many mistakes, you should realize that it is not so easy to solve them and only gets you into more difficulties."
Despite the war in Europe, Baba continued to correspond with his Western lovers. His letters were a source of comfort and an inspiration to them during their separation from him. On 10 February 1940, he wrote to his Leyla , Delia DeLeon in England:
I know every inch of you. Realize me and you will know God. No other pursuit is worthwhile, when you have met the Beloved. Everything then centers around him. You see all beauty through him, be it expressed through poetry, art, music, or through life itself. All work, whether of your hands or academic, is done for him and your only attachment is your Beloved. All service then becomes selfless, whether done for friends, family or stranger.
To please him (the Beloved) is to know him. There is no other knowing. Feeling is not knowing. To please me is to do, but [to do] what? That which your Beloved commands you.
My way with you all is the shortest way to union, which I long for infinitely more than you can ever long. Although the game is of my own making, still I must suffer to enjoy the game of my realizing myself consciously in all creation.
But it is up to you — my beloved ones who know me in the flesh as none other can — to lessen this suffering and give me all the happiness you are capable of. Will you do this for me? Help me in thought, word and action. Let your thoughts be always of me, your words spring always from love, and your actions be expressive of one who seeks in all she does to please him, who is ever-present in the heart of his beloved Leyla.
This thought will give you eternal happiness and bliss in the midst of the sad times through which the world is now passing and must face up to. The suffering of all will be terrible, but remember underneath are the "Everlasting Arms." So keep happy in your faith and love to the very end. I will never fail you and never leave you.
Katie and Goher Irani's brother, Jal Rusi, had come to Bangalore.