But the months from December to March being severely cold with snowfall, and so forth, in Iran, that period would not be suitable for the particular work I want to do there. I have therefore decided to proceed to Iran by the middle of March 1944 and return to India by the middle of April.
I have also received letters from several of the group stating their difficulty to get leave during January 1944, for the group meeting, although they have all expressed their readiness to give up their services [quit their jobs] or even studies, if it came to that, to enable themselves to be near me for one month. Much as I appreciate their service and spirit of renunciation for the love and devotion they have for me, and their readiness to obey me implicitly at any cost, I do NOT want them, for reasons of my own, to give up their worldly duties.
Taking all this, as also other important factors, into consideration, I have now decided to have the group near me after my return from Iran, from the 15th of May to the 15th of June 1944, when all the students and those serving in educational institutions will incidentally have the benefit of their summer vacation, and even others of the group can conveniently arrange for the leave required.
Except for this postponement, due mainly to conditions created by my own self, all other arrangements and programs for the group meeting, as also for the fulfillment of the spiritual experiences mentioned in my previous circulars, remain unaltered.
The doubting ones, the impatient ones and the disappointed ones need not hesitate to back out, since that would not be considered by me as their weakness, but will simply be taken as their unpreparedness for falling in with the appointed spiritual time, and they will all the same be blessed by me as ever. Let those who sign their readiness to accept this postponed period with a heart full of faith clearly understand that these postponements mean that the sacrifices for that period will be all the more intense and acute.
Those who have been ordered to fast for seven days in January 1944, should now do so from May 8th to 14th (both days inclusive), and break their fast with and near me on May 15, 1944.