Except for the attention required for the work and for maintaining your health, I want you all to remain as carefree and cheerful as you can.
After exchanging remarks with those who had arrived, Baba continued:
Now, let's talk business. I have got to do many, many things. I may, for that reason, call any one of you individually or in particular groups, at any time, for any period, and as many times as I may find it necessary to do so for my work. Everyone must, therefore, be ready to start working immediately, and remain within my call at any moment for the entire time that I remain here. I will be with you mostly from 8:00 to 11:00 A.M. and from 2:00 to 6:00 P.M. No one should go out of the premises during these hours, or the hours fixed for your meals.
For the present, only simple food will be brought here from a hotel and arrangements have been made with that hotel to prepare the same with pure ghee. From the time the others begin to arrive here, within the next three to four days, arrangements have been made with a caterer for both vegetarian and non-vegetarian meals to be prepared and served here on the premises according to the choice which they have expressed. You will then begin to get regular breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner.
On the 28th and 29th, none of you should go out at all, unless specially allowed by me to do so. Above all else, no one should have the tavakho [the right to expect] of an individual interview with me for the sake of an interview. I may not send for one or the other at all. But when called by me, and on my own initiative, you should talk with me freely on the points initiated by me, even if they happen to be connected with the Old Life. At all other times, none should ever refer to anything connected with the Old Life of anyone.
The next day, Thursday, 21 June 1951, in the presence of all, Baba allowed Ramjoo to discuss with him a particular matter which happened to be connected with Baba's proposed work, as well as with certain events of his Old Life. Everything went well until, unwittingly, Ramjoo referred to a personal matter. The moment Baba's attention was drawn to the lapse on Ramjoo's part by Ghani, Baba smiled broadly and remarked, "He has committed the