On another occasion, Ivy drove to Scarsdale to see Baba and, at one point, asked, "Baba, are we ever going to know more about Jesus' life? We have no knowledge of what happened between the time he was 12 and when he was 30."
Baba smiled and stated, "Yes, it is in the Book."
"Are we ever going to have a chance to read that Book?" Ivy asked.
Baba nodded.
But Rano tried to pin him with an exact answer, "In this life, Baba?" and again, Baba nodded, "Yes."
On 23 July, a coup d'état took place in Egypt. Baba had been continually stressing that he wished to land in Cairo to contact a mast, but now he was forced to change his plans.
He turned to John Bass and remarked, "The revolution in Egypt is John's fault."1
The film producer Gabriel Pascal came to see Baba at Scarsdale on Friday, 25 July, 1952 and again the next day. Baba was happy to see him, and they talked about Pascal's desire to make a film about Mahatma Gandhi and to have Sarosh, Meherjee and Nariman involved in the film's production and distribution in India.
On the 28th afternoon, Baba visited Consuelo Sides' apartment (125 E. 57th), where he met 40 of her friends and social acquaintances.
Another day, Baba took the women for tea to Fred and Ella Winterfeldt's apartment in Manhattan House at 200 E. 66th Street.
Baba praised the tea and stated, "Ella is an angel."
Then he remarked, "Even angels do not have this love for God. If they want to be Realized, they have first to become human. When a person becomes God-realized, he drops the body in one to three days."
Baba teased Margaret about not caring in the least about God-realization. "Baba, I love maya," she joked. "I think maya is beautiful! Besides, I would like to be with you again."
Ruano was also present and she had something on her mind. She asked, "Is it true that certain substances 'hold' impressions?" Baba shrugged his shoulders, and Ruano continued, "When you called me to come to India in 1936, I had little money. But with a friend, I happened to go to a fortune teller, who said I should take off the old Chinese bracelet I was wearing, and things would improve. She said it had belonged to someone who had lost everything in life. So I did. I thought, why not? And, almost at once, someone sent me a check for $500, enough for the boat to India."
Footnotes
- 1.Filis Frederick, who witnessed this incident and had also received blame from Baba for incidents with which she had no apparent connection, has speculated that although Baba seemed to be joking when he assigned blame, it may have indicated his spiritual working regarding the world situation.