This constantly caused a clash between herself and Rano, who was in charge of the luggage space and seating arrangements.
In Quetta, too, Khorshed asked Rano for more space, and Rano ignored her.
Baba then criticized Rano, "Why didn't you tell Khorshed she cannot take up so much room?"
"What is the use in quarreling when she does not listen?" Rano replied.
Baba cracked, "Because she has Jang-oo with her, she fights!" ( Jang , in the vernacular, means to fight.)
On Saturday, 15 March 1941, Baba discussed with Norina, Nadine and Elizabeth disseminating his message in America, and with Margaret and Irene doing the same work in Europe. The next day, Baba told them:
You must come back from the West, if alive, before I speak. Spirituality says life and body are zero. So if we spiritualists don't die, then the materialists must never die. Yet they are dying for their country. You all must die too — or you ought to have died long ago. So, you all must really die soon.
Margaret and Irene will have plenty of opportunities to die, if they do as I instruct, but with no hesitation. So, be ready to go and be prepared to stay!
On the 17th, Baba talked of George Bernard Shaw (what he said is not recorded) and also commented on the state of the war:
They do not know that no one will win and no one will be defeated. It will be quite a new, third result. England will suffer very much. India will be in a mess. Russia holds the key. She is very clever. Russia sides with all and none — and thus appears so aloof.
The English barber [Don] hopes to be posted in the I.M.S. [Indian Medical Service], in either Bangalore, Poona or Ahmednagar. He feels miserable to be away from me, but he will have to go! It is the law, and I have assured him he won't leave India.
Roosevelt's speech means war. America will play a very great part in the battle of humanity in the future. India has over 700 communities and castes, and so it is very difficult for India.
Norina asked, "Won't all this take a long time to end?"
Baba answered, spelling out:
In one second, thousands died in the Quetta earthquake. So we have many seconds to work in. If, all of a sudden, Hitler dies, Mussolini is killed, Stalin has heart failure and their followers are fed up, it doesn't take [much] time.1
Footnotes
- 1.Joseph Stalin was the head of the Russian government.