Now the thing to do is to ask Kaikobad to pray for me from the bottom of his heart.
Let me tell you all that later, after centuries, the world will realize that I am praying wholeheartedly 100 percent for myself, for you all and for the world at large — and every word of my prayer is linking me, you all and the world [together]!
Then, asking Kaikobad to pray for him, Baba urged him, "Pray to God to forgive me for whatever I have just said, and all you [mandali] join in the prayer. It is your good fortune that you are joining me in this prayer; anyhow, luck or no luck, put your hearts in it!"
Baba had given this discourse because the mandali themselves were feeling fed up. Everyone was feeling tired, but had said nothing in complaint. Only Kaikobad, who once had a glimpse of the divine light in Dehra Dun, was happy. When it happened, Kaikobad was so dazed that he lost body consciousness and fell down. When he regained consciousness, he found he had hurt his leg. After this first glimpse, he occasionally had a few more, when he would again lose consciousness and fall down.
The lawyer Harichand Kochar came to see Baba on Friday, 26 June 1953, and Baba asked him, "What do you desire?"
"Permit me to spend some time each day with the mandali," he said.
"You are presently sitting before me; what more do you want? You attend court, argue cases, rear your children — what is wrong with that?"
Baba discoursed at length, spelling out:
But it is true that you are confined in a very large, formidable prison — the prison of the mind, of the body and of the world. If once you are freed from this jail, you are safe forever. Still, this is all a figment of the imagination. You have passed through so many births. Just imagine how many children you have had. They are nowhere today.
In truth, there is nothing. Even the present life is a dream. In a dream at night, you eat, weep and are joyous. But on awakening, you find it was all a dream. Likewise, life is a dream. When one awakens from sleep, he considers the dream dreamt as a dream. But while dreaming, if the person were told that he was only dreaming, he would never believe it. At the time, his dream is a reality for him. But on rising, he automatically realizes it was a dream.