The instructions that I will give you are based on five specific foundations, each different in its aspect of execution and result, although the main effect of these different results will fundamentally be one and the same. So in short, I am classifying them in five separate functions, and calling them five instructions.
I will issue to each of you one of these five instructions. None of you will have more than one of the five instructions. I will decide which of these is to be given to whom.
These five instructions might bring in its wake to you personally the following five conditions:
1. Dying 2. Prison 3. Sanyas [renunciation] 4. Infinite physical hardship which might perhaps give lifelong physical defects 5. Ridicule, beating, scandals, starvation and begging
All of these five instructions will be concerned with the establishing of my work of spiritual freedom as mentioned in my introductory message of today. Each of these five instructions will have an explicit, separate, independent basis for its execution with a fixed, definite, separate result, although in some cases results may unintentionally coincide. Therefore the dying, the going to prison, renunciation and physical and mental hardships will all have been done for God and God alone.
All these five instructions will necessitate giving up worldly ties, permanently or temporarily.
Instructions will be clearly given to each of you, by post or hand delivery on February 1, 1943, as to how, when and where they are to be carried out. Funds will be provided when and if necessary. Whether you have to give up your present worldly ties permanently or temporarily will be made known to you definitely on February 1, the day that you will receive my instructions, which will have to be put into execution on February 28, 1943.
Baba concluded, "I want every one of you to observe absolute secrecy about all I have told you now. Therefore, none of you should tell anyone not present here anything about these instructions."
Group B, consisting of the following 22 men, were then called back in:1
73. Aspandiar Dadachanji (Chanji's brother from Karachi) 74. Arwind U. Vasavada (a friend of Nariman's from Benares) 75. Baggu (Ramjoo's son) 76. Behli J. Irani (Baily) 77. Dattu Mehendarge 78. Homi J. Damania 79. Jamadar (watchman) 80. Jangle 81. Limkar 82. Meherjee Satha 83. Minoo Pohowala 84. Mulchand G. Pahlajani (of Sukkur)
Footnotes
- 1.Five others of Group B who did not attend were: Bhagirath, Dinshaw Irani (Sailor's son), Gosi Irani (of Lahore), Homi Desai (of Lahore), and Padma Nair (Krishna's brother).