I have come down from the Highest to your level. So take me to be yours and naturally, automatically, you become mine. If you are poor, take me to be poor. If you are rich, take me to be rich. If you are illiterate, take me to be illiterate. If you are literate, take me to be literate. I have come down to your level, and if on that level you love me with all your heart, you will come to my real level of the Highest, because I am in you all.
The prasad that I will now give you, remember me with love and eat it with love. Then the seed of love will be sown in you.
Before leaving Rath on Sunday, 7 February 1954, Baba met the families of Khare and Gauri Shankar.
While journeying throughout Hamirpur for a number of months prior to Baba's arrival, Keshav Nigam had drawn up two lists of devotees. One list consisted of those who did work in Meher Baba's name with a sense of renunciation, and the other of those ready to go anywhere for Baba's work according to his behests. Baba was to meet with both groups of volunteers, and had previously given instructions that some secluded place be selected for the meeting to avoid interruptions and interference.
Baba arrived in Dhanauri, where a special meeting of these workers was to be convened. Keshav called this congregation Darbar-e-Khas — the Court of the Selected Ones. Bhau, meanwhile, was nervous about what was to transpire, since Baba had stated in Mahabaleshwar he would appoint him the leader of a "spiritual suicide" squad. He thought it was this group.
When Baba reached Dhanauri, he saw that the meeting place had been arranged just by the side of the tent where darshan was to be held. It was open on all sides whereas Baba wanted a closed room.
"For this important work, I wanted a place where even a sparrow could not hear us!" he fumed. "This place is totally unsuitable."
Therefore Baba and the mandali were taken to the village school, but the building was too small to accommodate Baba, the mandali and the workers.
There Baba asked Keshav, "Are all those who have volunteered to place their lives at my disposal for my divine work present?"
"Baba, all but two have come," Keshav replied.
Baba was not pleased by his answer and declared, "If the very beginning is based on such frivolities, the whole structure collapses!"