And may He solve our difficulties by the end of this
year, and may He decide everything for us by the end of this year, and may He,
according to Baba's 1949 circular, finish everything by the end of this
year, to enable Baba to break His silence in the beginning of the next year, to
speak the one and the last word of all-embracing Divinity.
After the last translation had been read out, all cried:
"Amen." The following ghazal dictated by Baba was sung:
People feel pleased to bathe in the waters of the holy
Ganges, But the Ganges itself bathes in the blood of one who has
spilt it in love.
God always takes care of the one who resides in the city
of love. Tell those who follow shariat and read the Koran to
renounce their own self before preaching to others.
Let maya commit suicide and let the world become its
grave! Let this happen by the end of the year and let all
difficulties end and only God remain.
Let God Almighty and companion Baba allow this desire to
be fulfilled, And at the beginning of the new year he should manifest
and break his silence!
Baba distributed prasad of rawa to each one. Everyone
returned to their homes by nine that morning.
After the recitations of the prayer that morning at
Meherazad, the mandali's dying embers of hope that Baba would break his
silence were revived. None yet had the vaguest idea of the
"earthquake" which was about to engulf them.
Thus Baba's Great Seclusion came to an end. It was
truly "great" as it prepared the way for the next phase of Baba's
mission — his New Life.
On one of his subsequent visits to Meherabad, Baba
remarked: "The work I have done in Meherazad [during this seclusion], I
have not done anywhere in the world."
After the seclusion ended, Baba sent Norina and Elizabeth
to America the next morning, 2 August, for his work. They went in Meherjee's
car, with him and Nariman and Arnavaz. They were instructed to prepare for
Baba's arrival in Myrtle Beach in the near future. They left from Bombay two
days later. Banjo, the dachshund, went with them.