A week later, Baba gave the following clarification about his previous seclusion statement (made on 24 March):
I feel entirely satisfied with the statement that I have made, because I have firm conviction that God is so determined that I shall certainly be made to take the irrevocable step. With all the conviction that I have about it, I clearly want you all to know that I am still totally unaware about the nature of the step that I shall be compelled to take.
To put it more plainly, I want you all to understand that today I cannot even guess what step God has ordained for me. This step might plunge me into a life older than the Old Life, or newer than the New Life, or into a life below both these lives, or into a life above both these lives.
I feel certain that by the beginning of the last week of June 1951, God will definitely determine within me the nature of the step that I shall have to take. No sooner the step is disclosed to me during the last week of June, than I shall declare it to you all. Before I finally put into execution the irrevocable step on 16 October 1951, which, as I have spelled out in my statement, will bring an extraordinarily revolutionary change in my life and in the lives of those who are directly or indirectly connected with me, I shall have to prepare the ground for the same from July till the 16th of October.
Preparations for me and for all those connected with me will have to be made to my entire satisfaction to completely safeguard against the least interference or causes of interference that would come in my way of taking that irrevocable step on 16 October 1951. Hence, I shall have to settle various points of interference with discrimination and with determination.
I somehow feel that ever since I set out for the New Life, there have been various occasions when I, and those connected with me, had to overcome many causes of interference with my New Life. This time, I shall not be doing anything which will not give me entire satisfaction with what I settle by way of preparation for the 16th of October.