Be absolutely honest in giving your opinions, answers and suggestions. Keep sentiments apart. Don't be vague. Say exactly what you think and how you feel.
You should not say, "Baba, your will."
Only a few of us are here to arrive at a decision that concerns many of us. The women mandali also are going to be disbanded. Whatever we decide here is, therefore, going to be binding on the women, and will affect everyone connected with me in one way or the other. I am going to decide everything within these ten days.
Do not be misled by my apparently eccentric habits and customs up to now. For example, I have definitely decided to give up Meherazad in October, and yet I have given instructions to Padri to have electric fittings done as soon as he can. This is due to my old habit of maintaining the old order of things right up to the moment I actually start upon anything new.
It may be madness, it may be method, but that has been my habit. Now I am also going to put an end to my habits and customs. So when I say the "end," now it means nothing but end.
Do not remain under the impression that it will be otherwise. I want to be absolutely free from everything and everybody. There will be no compromise about anything now.
I am becoming ghutt [hardened], naffat [callous] and naked [penniless]. Remember the proverb: "Even God is afraid of the naked!"
A deadline of 15 October 1949 was fixed by Baba for the disposal of everything and the completion of all arrangements. These included the cancellation of Baba's Last Will, made in favor of the mandali since 1940, as well as the cancellation of wills made in Baba's favor by the men mandali. Baba tore them up himself one by one (except the wills of the Westerners), in the presence of the respective executants, each of whom was given back the torn pieces to be kept in remembrance of this day. The Meher Publications partnership was also dissolved, and the copyrights reverted to the authors concerned.
On the first day of the meetings, several men had come whom Baba had sent away after a brief interview. One was a sadhu called Mauni Bua, who had taken a vow of silence and spent his time wandering about on pilgrimages. He had met Baba in June 1948, at Meherabad, having been brought by Bal Natu.
On this occasion, also, Baba asked Mauni again, "Would you follow my orders?"