The difference in good and bad is so subtle, good for one person is bad for others. Hitler really thinks he is doing good, but his "good" is "bad" for others!
Don't think because I look so happy and well that it is all so easy. I feel very, very well, but very depressed. Last night was very bad.
Baba then commented about meditation and repeating his name:
Love comes in the last stage of meditation. It is the longing for the Beloved that brings one nearer to that stage. In the morning you say the seven names of God. When I say, "Do it from the heart," it means first you must feel that you are taking the name of God.
Secondly, you must have the fixed idea in your mind that all these names are One. The vibration [of your repetition] helps. These names I have so selected and arranged that they vibrate and help if done with feeling. I intend for the masts to sing this. They will help more because their minds work either too fast or too slow, so that it seems at a stop.
Some days later, Baba narrated an amusing incident about meditation:
I had a follower named Barsoap. While meditating, he would go to sleep, but in the posture of meditation. When anyone shook him awake, he would claim he was in deep meditation! But one day I caught him, and he admitted he was sleeping.
So, like Barsoap, don't go to sleep during meditation, but sing the names sincerely.
Baba sent word to Don through Vishnu to proceed to Ankai and see how the mandali there were faring. He was to ask them whether they would prefer to stay at Ankai or return to Meherabad. Don left on the 26th, and returned the same evening with encouraging news. Pappa had told Don that all were happy and that he was caring for them well, saying they would of course continue to stay at Ankai until Baba himself sent for them. Poor Savak, Gustadji, Pleader and Bhabananda were silent, so they could not tell Don the real story.
Padri came to Meherabad on 26 August from Bangalore, but Baba did not see him that day.