“”"For example, if praise and insult do not affect you, you would be always happy. If not, you are bound to be unhappy. How easy the remedy is, yet the simplicity itself makes it difficult."
After the interview, Baba left and went to bathe the masts and give them shaves and haircuts.
Doctors Don and Nilu could not directly treat the women mandali staying in the ashram in Bangalore, since the men were forbidden to see the Eastern women. Rano would report to them about the health of each resident, and they had to prescribe medication without ever examining the patient.
Once Naja fell ill but at that time she did not speak much English. When Rano asked her symptoms, Naja replied, "Something in stomach ... something in shoulder ... something in back!" Rano went to Nilu with the report and asked for medicine for Naja's "something." When Baba came to know of the case, he had a good laugh.
When Dowla fell ill, the residents formed a language-chain, since Dowla was fluent only in the Persian dialect Dari . Dowla explained her indisposition to Soonamasi in Dari; Soonamasi retold it to Mansari in Gujarati; Mansari recounted it to Nilu in Marathi; and Nilu explained it to Don in English! Baba enjoyed this novel diagnostic method also.
Mansari had been told to serve as a nurse and report on the non-English-speaking Eastern women's health to Rano, who would then report to Nilu or Don. But when Baba was among the women, instead of attending to her work, Mansari wanted to be present with him. This gave rise to discord between her and Rano.
Explaining about the circle of the Masters on Tuesday, 13 February 1940, Baba stated:
“”There is a difference in the Avatar's or Sadgurus' attitude toward their circles and toward the general public. The members of the circle are like the sons [of the Master], and the general public are like strangers. For example: If a newsboy turns into a millionaire, he would teach others the ways by which he became so, and tell them that if they followed him, they, too, would become millionaires. But to his sons, he will give the riches — not descriptions of how he acquired the riches.
In the same way, the Avatar and Sadgurus never explain to the members of their circles the ways and means of the Path. They just place them right on the path to God-realization itself; while to ordinary people, they explain the ways and means to achieve it.
