It is because they feel happy in my presence that they stay. They see me and know me as none of you do. That is why they are quiet. Otherwise, they would be impossible to manage.
If efforts made with love are effective with worldly people, they would be all the more effective and essential in dealing with these saintly beings who are lost in the love of God. You love to enjoy one phase of some of their peculiar traits when they are quiet and pleasing. You should equally enjoy the other phase of their insistence in the experience of the bliss they find in certain things which your eyes cannot penetrate, nor your mind understand.
Ranchi is a famous resort area in India. Before leaving Meherabad, Baba had urged Don and the other men to take complete rest in Ranchi and make the most of the month before the 1st of August, when the newly imposed restrictions would come into force and they would have to lead a strictly disciplined life for a year. Baba had promised a "glorious time" in Ranchi and suggested that the trip would be more of a holiday or recreation, than one of strictly work. However, the men were under no misapprehensions about what a long trip with the Master involved. The rainy weather kept everyone indoors most of the time, preventing them from even taking walks. Then Baba's work with the masts and the arduous work of preparing 240 typed lists of 31 orders as soon as they arrived made all their "dreams of a holiday during the tour vanish into thin air," as Chanji recounted sardonically.
Mehera, Mani, Naja and Khorshed were adjusted to living in seclusion, but for the Western women, the confined experience at Ranchi was a new one. The men too were much more restricted in their movements there, as on one side of Golkothi the women were staying, on another side were the masts' quarters, and on a third was a large hill full of deadly snakes. In the end, they felt like incarcerated prisoners!
Every afternoon or evening, Baba would visit the women and discuss the latest war news, or his work with the masts. On Thursday, 11 July 1940 at 4:30 P.M., he observed:
Now England is doing fine, on water and in the air. If France declares war on England, what a surprise! England has set everyone against it. Ireland is another problem. Mark my words: It is 100 percent America's failure that has broken France's heart and made her hate democracy. Look at the facts. What did the last constitution give France? Destruction! Now that all the people of France are accepting Germany, it means they hate democracy.