Elaborating on this point further, Baba observed:
The Parsis are practically extinct. Fifty percent of them are on my side and 50 percent are in opposition. Those who do not believe in me still believe in their old rituals, putting sandalwood in the fire, and so forth. To them, those persons who are honest, serve mankind and have good qualities but who do not follow religious precepts are condemnable. They would often say that those not burning sandalwood have bought tickets to hell!
According to their faith, Zoroaster was the last Prophet, and another one will come in the [present] Kali Yuga. In this age, uneducated people especially have taken to worshiping stone as God, mostly in the villages. This is another sign of the spiritual decline of the East.
Changing the topic, Baba then remarked:
I am fed up with my silence. My disgust is neither mental, physical nor spiritual; it is disgust with the mandali! The disgust with mandali members is individual. Worldly disgust is also individual. Distaste for everything is there. I have disgust because of my silence, and when I see the disgust of the mandali, mine is increased.
Everyone is fed up, and the disgust of everyone devolves on me. The disgust the world feels also falls to my lot, in addition to the disgust I already feel about my silence. But all this disgust will evaporate when I break my silence.
Addressing the mandali, Baba asked, "Even if you have disgust, what happens? You must get disgusted with disgust itself!"
Baba continued:
I am silent and do not speak at all. Have you any idea how disgusted I am with this silence?
I agree with Nilu's medical opinion that I should daily take a walk in the open air. Thereby my health will certainly improve. I am free for four months from the responsibilities of the mandali and near ones, and I could have acted on his advice. But even during these four months, I am bound by a certain important work. That binding is infinitely bigger than the present bindings. It is so important that it will eat my life right out of me. Honestly! I am not just talking in the air — it will corrode my very life! If my body lasts, I have to do this work until the end of December. Yesterday was the first day I felt physically as bad as on similar past occasions, though this time the attack was more severe.