But last night he sang out loudly and then began abusing everyone. My touching him for three days has made him speak. For ten years he was mild; now he will become very wild! What he sang after ten years was [in Urdu]: "God can be found in the jungle. He can be found in the cities!" And this song he repeated for an hour and then started cursing!
From the 1st of August, you all sing with the harmonium. For one year, you will eat only once a day. Eat as much as you like at one sitting, for as long as you like, for half or one hour. In Europe people will starve after six months. They will eat horses, rats, children, old people. Compared to them, you are in heaven! But you all will have to obey even if you die! Twice tea or coffee, morning and noon, with milk. It will not go easy for the first few days for anyone who likes tea and coffee. But if it were easy, what would be the meaning of one year's life of sacrifice? Even I will have to give the supreme sacrifice in my own way.
Bhaiyyas [a strong, muscular Hindu caste from Central India] eat once a day all their lives, a huge pile of chapatis and dal! And how strong they are! It is control. People quickly become excited when they are hungry and when they fast. So control anger. Give Elizabeth your cup of coffee. India is also the land of coffee and tea.
England will find it very difficult to eat [find food]. They will all starve. They will eat rats, bats, cats, and even old men and women! Mark my words. America now feels that it will have to fight sooner or later. It will be terrible. America will not suffer less than England and France.
The only thing that we are concerned with at the moment is to get Turkey into this mess before the 19th [of July].
On Sunday, 14 July 1940, Baba commented about the masts:
The mast from Calcutta [Karim Baba] smoked four cigarettes at a time today. He also sang: "I am the Raja [King]. I am the Khwaja [Master]!"
He sits at one place the whole day long, and goes to the toilet there. I clean it with phenol. Although he sits all day and takes no exercise, he has no liver trouble, no headache and his bowels function regularly.