Anyone may believe me to be whatever he likes, but no one may ask for blessings, miracles or any rewards of any kind.
My New Life is eternal. Those other than my servants in my New Life, whoever or wherever they may be, who desire to live that life are free to do so in the spirit of it, independently.
Baba then concluded:
"I will leave Mahabaleshwar on the 21st of October on my intended tour of two to three months. Among the places I shall go will be Kolhapur, Miraj, Hubli, Hyderabad, Madras, Bombay, Assam, Bengal, Orissa and Bihar, where I shall do my work with the masts and the poor, as well as my New Life phases of begging, langoti and gypsy life."
When Don finished reading the English version, Baba himself handed a copy of the message to everyone, and then distributed laddoos and tea. After the refreshment, Baba expressed his satisfaction with the work done by the Arrangementwalas and observed that, in spite of difficulties, they had discharged their responsibilities well.
Baba then left the meeting hall to privately retake the oath of the New Life. He returned in a few minutes clad in a white kafni, the ocher-colored satchel for begging hanging from his shoulder. Baba declared that he had now stepped back into the New Life, and he exhorted all Yeswalas to either enter the New Life and follow his behests 100 percent, or to lead the Old Life, or to take up an independent life altogether. One of these they had to decide. The decisions taken were:
Adi Sr. — Old Life Aloba — Old Life (as advised by Baba in Bombay) Babadas — Old Life (as advised by Baba) Baidul — Servant Bal Natu — Old Life Daulat Singh — Old Life (as ordered by Baba) Don — Servant Eruch — Servant Ghani — Old Life Gustadji — Servant Kaikobad — Servant Kaka Baria — Servant Kishan Singh — Old Life Minoo Kharas — Old Life (as ordered by Baba) Murli Kale — Servant Nilu — Servant Pandoba — Old Life Pendu — Servant Vishnu — Servant Anna 104 — Old Life (but he was allowed to stay with Baba as an ordinary servant)12
After these decisions were announced, Baba silently prayed to God:
"Give me strength to live the New Life fully and completely."
Footnotes
- 1.Minoo Kharas decided to join Meher Baba and be a servant, but Baba ordered him to resume his old life, and stay in Pakistan.
- 2.As an ordinary servant, not a New Life servant, Anna 104 had the condition that he could be sent away when Baba desired.