Padri added in a note to Adi Sr.: "God help Baba and the West!"
When Adi Sr. and Gulmai saw Baba at Meherazad on 14 March, Baba instructed Adi to have Sarosh continue to pay for the safety-deposit box at the Central Bank of India in Bombay, where among other things, Baba had kept the handwritten manuscript of the book he had written at Meherabad in 1925–26.
Baba's physical condition in general continued to remain weak after his Manonash work. On 17 March, Elizabeth and Norina were cabled in America: "Baba's condition is getting worse every day, but he still says that 'unless impossible, will come, because if not this time, then I will never come.' "
Eruch was in Poona and returned on 15 March. Baidul too was staying in Poona at this time, and was cabled to be at Meherazad at noon on the 18th.
Friday, 21 March 1952, was the first day of Baba's Complicated Free Life. On that day he proceeded to Meherabad in Adi Sr.'s car with Nariman, Meherjee, Rano and Kitty. Nilu, Vishnu and Padri followed in a jeep driven by Eruch, and the women mandali and Arnavaz came in Nariman's car. Baba lay down in his Jhopdi and dictated the following circular to Adi Sr. and Eruch:
Today being the first day of my Complicated Free Life, I feel happy to declare the following through this circular, which consists of:
A. A Clarification of the Life and its three phases.1
B. A message to those who believe in my Life Circular No. 1 .
C. Instructions to Eruch and Pendu for seven months, from April 1st to the end of October [1952].
A. The Clarification:
(1) Life today finds me both strong and weak. The strength is of the conviction of Knowledge and the Old Life Meher Baba state, while the ordinary human state of weaknesses and binding desires makes me feel utterly weak.
(2) As already declared by me, I have left to God's decree and sanction the result of the Manonash work for myself and all concerned. Where, how and when the result of this work will be, I leave entirely to the will of God.
(3) During my Complicated Free Life, Full Free Life and Fiery Free Life, I, with the help of those who are ready to do so, will do the work as revealed to me under the guidance of God.
Footnotes
- 1.This Clarification of the Life and its three phases had been dictated by Baba ten days earlier, on 11 March 1952.