This step compels me to take on complete mental annihilation during the process between October 16 and February 16. That means that during this period of mental annihilation, I will, in the natural course of events, be facing physical annihilation as well, without my actually seeking it. By February 12, the result, as I see it, will be:
1) I will gain complete mental annihilation and yet be alive physically, and this will mean that I will not only attain the Old Life Meher Baba state, but also manifest it universally. It will also mean a super-revolutionizing in the lives of everyone connected with me, and even those not connected with me, as fundamentally I will then be connected with each and everyone, except that its effect will vary in accordance with the strength of their connection with me; or
2) With mental annihilation my physical body might fall, and that would mean the end of everything and the beginning of everything. Then, for those connected with me, the same super-change will occur, but without my personal individual manifestation; or
3) Before mental annihilation is gained, my physical body might fall, and that would mean we would all be where we were. In that case, every one of you will be benefited according to your connection with me and your love and faith for me; or
4) By the end of February, mental annihilation might not be gained and physically I might be alive, and that would mean the end to all. Then I would free everyone from having any direct connection with me, leaving it to them to lead any kind of life they choose.
One of these four [outcomes] may eventually result from the God-determined Step in accordance with the ultimate will of God.
In any case, those directly and indirectly connected with me will not have loved me and served me all along in vain. Irrespective of what I was, am, and will be, God in His infinite justice will see to everything. My strongest and only advice to each one of you is to hold fast to your faith and love — at least in the same proportion as now, if not greater.
God wants me to take this step, and I am absolutely certain that He will help me gain this mental annihilation by February 12. With this inner conviction, I will plunge deeply into this act of annihilation from the 16th of October.