After this brief discourse, Baba questioned, "Who would do as I have asked?"
Most of the boys raised their hands. Again Baba began playing with them, throwing apples for them to catch. Looking in one direction, he would toss the fruit in another, and the children thoroughly enjoyed his lively company.
Gadekar, Madan Arora and Deshmukh had to leave for their homes on this day because they had to return to their jobs. Embracing them, Baba permitted them to depart. Madan had been filming all the functions since Vijayawada, but because his leave had expired he was forced to go back to work.
Principal Thanneri Bulliah of the Gurukul told Baba that the wife of the president of the Gurukul committee, being ill, could not come for his darshan and prayed for his blessings.
Baba replied, "I bless her. But to be true to my teachings before all, it is necessary for me to say that unless one loses one's own self in the Beloved, one cannot be said to be a true devotee.
"In loving God there can be no compromise. One of God's aspects is Infinite Honesty, and unless we love God honestly from the core of our heart, we cannot find Him. Reading, theorizing, reasoning, thinking lead us nowhere. Love, and in love one loses everything and finds oneself in God. Anyway I bless her."
Baba then added, "Mr. Bulliah is right from his point of view. He asks me to help her, but we have to lose ourselves. We are to die and then live eternally. I bless her."
The fact was, the president's wife had purposely not come for Baba's darshan because she had no faith in him.
A swami from the local Radhakrishna ashram came to Baba, and Baba remarked to him, "I am both Radha and Krishna. I am happy to see you."
The film that Madan had taken of the November 1953 darshan program in Dehra Dun was shown that morning, after which Baba distributed prasad to those present.
At nine o'clock that morning, Baba and his group left for Amalapuram. On his way, Baba stopped at the house of N. Pillay in Dowlaiswaram. Pillay was a colleague of Dharmarao. He had come to Kovvur earlier to invite Baba to his home.
Many had assembled and Baba informed them, "I wanted to come here at 7:30, stop for half an hour, deliver messages and give prasad. But it is now nine o'clock and we will be late. So I will touch the prasad."