He was to do any legal work required for Sarosh, Adi Sr. and Ramjoo, for a payment of Rs.300 per month.
Dr. Deshmukh had compiled Baba's Discourses which were published in a five-volume set. Delia informed Baba that Charles Purdom wanted to reedit them into a single volume. A meeting about copyrights and Charles Purdom's editing of the discourses was held at the Ice Factory on 4 September. In attendance were Adi Sr., Don, Ghani, Ramjoo, Elizabeth, Norina, Jean and Delia. Baba decided that they should accept Purdom's changes and the deletion of part of the material according to Deshmukh's suggestion. Deshmukh was called from Amraoti to discuss the project, but he did not agree with Purdom. A heated discussion ensued. Baba decided to keep the five volumes of the Discourses unchanged and to allow Purdom to publish his own set of new discourses.1
Kishan Singh had Baba's darshan on the 4th, as did Minoo Bharucha. Arnavaz and Nariman came the following day.
Goma Ganesh Pathak, one of the former teachers of the Meher Ashram school, was doing social work in Ahmednagar and would come to see Baba from time to time. He was in the process of opening a nursery school, Babawadi , for poor children where they would be given free milk. Baba was invited to the opening in October. At 3:00 P.M. on the 5th, Goma Ganesh brought some of these children to the Ice Factory to sing and dance for Baba, which Baba highly enjoyed.
Baba visited Meherazad on 6 September with Adi Sr. and Kaka Baria. Minoo Bharucha and a Muslim boy named Ismail (whom Baba was trying to draw near him) accompanied them. Padri expressed his difficulty in completing the electric work on time, but Baba was anxious that he, Gyara and Mahiboob finish soon.
On the 7th and 8th, Baba met with Ramjoo, Ghani, Adi Sr. and others to finalize a constitution for The Sufi Circle, a group being formed to maintain Baba's link with Ivy Duce and Francis Brabazon.2
During this period, Baba had this message circulated to those living at Meherabad, as well as to other close lovers in India:
Three types of Disciples :
1. Those who give and never ask
2. Those who give and also ask
3. Those who do not give but ask
Three types of Seekers:
1. The inspired ones
Footnotes
- 1.Purdom did the revised work, which was published (in 1955) as God To Man and Man To God. The title was given by Baba.
- 2.The Sufi Circle did not last long. It was dissolved on 17 October 1948, due to lack of participation by others besides Ghani. Instead, it was agreed that Ghani would be paid Rs.200 per month to travel and give lectures on Sufism and Baba.