During this time I will instruct you how to be ready for the realization and manifestation of ideals in the month of August. Then you are to go back to your places and join me for one full month from the 1st of August to the 30th of August.
Naturally, you will be inconvenienced by having to rearrange your affairs and to readjust what you now must have already adjusted. But every kind of inconvenience, small or big, now or in the future, has to be faced earnestly, according to your having agreed to obey at any sacrifice.
In short, you should be in Meherabad on May 15th for six [ sic ] days, and on August 1st for one month. During your six days' stay at Meherabad you will ask me no questions, but listen to my instructions, which will be clear and precise.
Acknowledge this letter immediately at Meherabad address.
Age explains: "The Master's change of plans was a necessary, beneficial step for his lovers. It was a lesson in being ready to obey the Master and being indifferent to worldly attachments. Out of the instability surrounding Meher Baba's activities came inner stability, as due to his constant change of plans, the mind was focused more and more on him, and less and less on the binding entanglements of the material world."
Gadekar and P. N. Limkar brought Krishnarao and his group to perform again for Baba on Saturday, 3 April 1943 from 4:00 to 8:00 P.M. The next day, Adi Sr. drove Baba to Meherabad to begin planning for the meeting. (Don met them briefly in Poona on their way.) A feast on the evening of the 5th in honor of Baba's mother Memo was arranged at Meherabad by Pendu according to Baba's instructions. A large meeting of the mandali was held on the 6th. Baba spoke to Manek Mehta (who had attended the December meeting) about doing his work and avoiding the "greatest pitfall of self-conscious superiority" while carrying it out. Deshmukh saw Baba on the 7th and discussed plans for visits to Delhi, Agra and Jabalpur. Ghani and Sailor Mama's family saw Baba at Meherabad the following day.
On 9 April, Baba left in Sarosh's car with Kaka, Adi Sr., Gustadji, Baidul and Chanji on a tour of Poona, Bombay, Surat and Jalgaon to contact masts.1 As Baba, for his own reasons, did not wish to step in Bombay proper, he was driven from Bandra to Kurla railway station.
Footnotes
- 1.Pendu and Chhagan joined them for part of the tour, and were then sent to Gujarat and Benares.