An African-American mureed named Edward James was a well-read intellectual.
Baba asked him, "Tell me in exactly five words what you have learned from all these books?"
The young man looked at Baba, not knowing what to say.
Baba answered for him: " 'I have not learned anything' — five words, isn't that so?"
To Mrs. Zarouhi Bahjejian, Baba stated, "The language of love is of the heart. The lover need not speak, and the Beloved need not hear, and yet both know each other. So rest assured, I know all you want to say, and tell you do not be afraid."
Edith W. Bradbury (of New York City) met Baba at 3:05 P.M. that day, and after her, a Professor Dagray.
Baba told him: "All understanding is not knowing. Everything that can be understood is not God ... I have said repeatedly all along — since ages, I have been saying: The only thing worth living for and dying for is God.
"In any form, you can love Him. Through any gesture, you can love Him. Love His impersonal or personal aspect. Love Baba or love God within you. It is the same, but the feeling of love must be from within. So now that you have seen Baba, God will make you love Him. My love will guide you. So now make a firm resolve: love God, love Baba."
A woman named Otilia de Tejeira had flown to Myrtle Beach from Panama to meet Baba. She had heard of him from Delia DeLeon in 1948. Baba met with her at 4:00 P.M. on the 16th and instructed her to shake hands with every one of her group in Panama, from him.
Two other women who saw Baba were Mattie Perone and Muriel Houston (who was helping on the Center during Baba's visit). Muriel asked Baba, "What do you want me to do?"
Baba said, "Attend to all your worldly duties as now, but with this difference, that you dedicate your inner life to loving God. You must not give up anything. But know within you that only God is real."
Previously, in November 1938, Consuelo Sides had come to see Baba in India; but she had also paid visits to other gurus while there. It was in reference to this habit of visiting other spiritual personalities that Baba advised her on the 16th at 4:10 P.M.:
You are one of my most intimate ones, one of the five trustees of my Universal Center, and you have been longing for my contact. So, as one of my most dear ones, in all honesty I want to give you one piece of advice. Do not dig at many places. Even if it takes a long time to get water, you should dig at only one place. Eventually, water comes.