All our sufferings will have to be borne in this manner until that final moment when the Fiery Life shall, by God's grace, emerge victorious.
When Don was finished with the reading, Baba stated:
Now the important Declaration for which I have gathered all of you here is a very few words, and God wants me to declare it. It is all His Will and His alone that works throughout eternity. So these few words that I will now declare will have to be borne in mind till the end of April:
Declaration:
During the last fifteen days of April 1953, God will end everything and mend everything — end the present universal mess of doubts, suspicion, hatred and destruction. And for that, God will have to manifest as never before, and there will be such chaos as never before. God will make me drop this body during that period. And then maybe some of us will meet bodily after 700 years.
We need not worry about this body. We always were and will be [that] is my Knowledge. And you all today being my Gurus, because of your love, I ask your blessings for my Fiery Life.
Ask God, Who is present right here now, to give me strength to accomplish the Universal work that He has ordained me to do in April.
Baba asked Krishnaji to beseech God's blessings that his Universal work may be accomplished.
Everyone stood. The atmosphere was solemn. In a voice filled with emotion, Krishnaji said, in his own words: "O God! You are omnipresent! We ask you to give Baba strength in his Fiery Life to accomplish the Universal work that he is ordained to do in April. We wholeheartedly pray to you to shower your choicest blessings on Baba!"
Krishnaji then surprised everyone, since he was a newcomer, by adding, "... And I feel Baba is God!"
After the prayer, everyone sat down. Baba appeared very happy and radiant, and asked Don to read the following message of the Fiery Life, dictated by him the day before:
All these years I have been recognized as a Sadguru and the Avatar. Later in my New Life, I lived the life of an ordinary humble human being.
In the Manonash period, I lived the life of an aspirant in order to achieve complete mental annihilation. During the period of my Free Life, I have been playing the dual role of strength and weakness, retaining simultaneously the roles of Master and devotee.