This means that you are 40 years old, but at the moment you have no realization of these 40 years, as you have no need to think of it. But if you give it a thought, then you picture the whole period of 40 years in a moment; if you do not, it does not exist for you. So in eternity there is no question of time.
Baba's comments on atomic warfare were particularly timely. Twelve days later, Russia exploded its first hydrogen bomb.
After the cricket match on Sunday, 2 August 1953, Baba reminisced about his childhood:
[As a boy,] I used to get up early in the morning and after tea go out and play cricket. On return I would have breakfast and thereafter play marbles. After lunch I would rest a while and then start playing gilli-danda. I would have afternoon tea and at about five o'clock go out again to fly kites. After dinner I would play cards. Thus I would pass my time.
I want to live such a life now, but the mandali have changed my luck [fate]. From the very beginning I have been fond of games and listening to stories. I will come again after 700 years and be able to spend my time like that!
Baba then commented about India, the habits of Perfect Masters and the past habits of the different Avatars:
It is, however, astonishing to find that India is said to be a land of spirituality, but in no other country is found such blind faith, superstition and practice of religious ceremonies. Now, think what people would say when I am considered a Spiritual Master if they found me playing cricket! Ninety-nine percent would say, "How could he be a Spiritual Master?" If tomorrow I drink liquor or have a smoke or go to a movie in public, 99 percent would say that such could not be the activities of a Perfect Master. They forget that what they eat, the Sadguru also eats. And if they go to the cinema, why shouldn't the Sadguru?
If we tell them that Ram was a hunter and a meat eater and that Krishna enjoyed the company of the gopis, they would reply: "They were God [-Men] and as such are not bound. It is all their leela, their play." I am now playing cricket and seeing films which were not there in the days of Ram or Krishna. Now, after 400 to 500 years, people will say that Baba was the Avatar and so he could do that. He could play cricket, he could see movies, as he was eternally free.