2. Being in constant company with saints and lovers of God and rendering them wholehearted service.
3. Avoiding lust, greed, anger, hatred and the temptations of power, fame and faultfinding.
4. Leaving everyone and everything in complete external renunciation, and in solitude, devoting oneself to fasting, prayer and meditation.
5. Carrying on all worldly duties with equal acceptance of success or failure, and with a pure heart and clean mind, and remaining unattached in the midst of intense activity.
6. Selfless service of humanity, without any thought of gain or reward.
A poor cobbler had been among those hired to build Baba's hut in Meherastana. While laboring wholeheartedly in the cold day and night, he had fallen ill. He was so ill that when Baba arrived the man could not attend the darshan program.
The next day, with a crowd trailing behind him, Baba himself walked to the poor man's tiny, one-room hut. Hearing noise outside, he came out and was dazed at seeing Meher Baba there. He ran to him like a crazed man and fell weeping at his feet. Baba and the mandali raised him up and led him back inside to his bed. Sitting next to him on the broken cot, Baba wiped away his tears with his hand. "O Lord, forgive me," the man cried. "I cannot offer you anything. No fruit, no flower, no coconut — still you have been merciful enough to enter a poor cobbler hut."
Baba answered compassionately, "Your love is the most precious offering you can give."
In Hamirpur, Baba had stipulated: "I will first work with a mast, and then give darshan to the public."
So Baidul went out in search of a mast in the area. To show him the way, Keshav suggested he take along a man named Swamidin Sharma, even though this person had no faith at all in Baba and had led a less-than-stellar life.
While Baidul was inquiring about masts, Sharma suddenly remembered one known as Maulana Saheb. He took Baidul to him, and Maulana consented to go to Baba. Baidul brought the mast to the darshan pavilion where, in a curtained-off space, Baba contacted him alone. After their contact, while walking back to the pandal, the mast gripped Sharma by the hand and led him before Baba. There was a large crowd near Baba on the dais. Sharma went forward for darshan as the mast sang this refrain (in Hindi):