Your love brought me to you, your love has kept me with you and your love will bind me to you till the end. This is sufficient. Can anyone who is not divine love himself fill his disciples with a love that is 'love for its own sake'?"
Norina: "In you — who can do what no man can, as you have proven to me — I believe. With renewed enthusiasm, I here re-sign. For you I am ready to live and die."
Rano: "The one certainty in my life is you, beloved Baba. I am yours and will always be yours."
After Mahatma Gandhi's assassination, there were disturbances throughout the country. Even in Ahmednagar, some Indian Congressmen had burned down the house of some Mahasabites (members of a Hindu reactionary political group), when they saw that they were holding a celebratory party over Gandhi's demise. (The Congress Party blamed the Mahasaba Party for Gandhi's death, as it was one of their members who had killed Gandhi.)
Baba heard about this incident on 1 February 1948 from Adi Sr., Nusserwan and Eruch.
Baba commented to Nusserwan, "Don't be sad. The Mahasabites are glad that they got rid of Gandhi [who they thought was appeasing the Muslims]. Congressmen should be happy that Gandhi got an honorable death of a martyr — so sudden and bearing no last-minute suffering."
Then Baba made a dire prediction, "The future world upheavals, which will result in the loss of 75 percent of human lives in the world, will render every previous event into insignificance."
Baba sent a circular to his lovers directing them to carry out one of the following five instructions from the 1st to the 25th of February 1948:
1. To eat only once during each 24 hours and take tea only twice (water may be taken as and when required). 2. To observe silence. 3. To feed with one's own hands one poor man or woman each day (the poor person must be a different one each day, i.e., the same person should not be fed twice). 4 To abstain literally and absolutely from any sexual relations whatsoever. 5. To meditate each day for one hour.
Thus, although Baba's one-month meeting had still not actualized, he did keep his inner and outer contact with his lovers in India and abroad by allowing them to participate in his work in such ways.
On Wednesday, 4 February 1948, Baba again sent for Ali Shah. Baba sat with him for two hours, from 9:00 A.M. to 11:00 A.M., and then sent him back to Meherabad with Adi Sr.