After the meals, Sastri informed Baba that were it not for the help rendered by Venkata Rao to those who had suffered in the recent floods, many families would have been left destitute and starving. Hearing this, Baba observed:
Love for God can be expressed in so many ways because He has infinite aspects. The three aspects of power, knowledge and bliss are well known, but infinite honesty and infinite goodness are also main aspects — and goodness means where there is no thought of self.
When you serve your fellow beings with selflessness, you serve God; but this term "selflessness" is so very loosely used that in its very use its purpose is lost. Selfless service means that it has to be so very natural that even the thought that you have served should be absent.
What God's aspect of honesty means is that you serve others in order to make them happy at the cost of your own happiness. Honesty demands that no show and no fuss is made of your service and you treat others as you treat your own dear ones.
While making this statement, Dharmarao was observed dozing, and Baba humorously remarked, "While driving he was drowsy, and we would not be here now but would have been in the canal were it not for my timely control on the steering wheel. Even now he feels drowsy!"
Baba then added, "The only thing I did not lose when I found myself one with God was my sense of humor! So, though few can fathom my divinity, at least everyone can easily understand my being human."
It was time to leave for the place of darshan, and Ramjoo asked Baba which message should be read there.
Baba replied, "More important than my receiving addresses and giving messages is my coming in contact with people through prasad."
Konaseema's house was divided into two parts: he lived in one part and the Cooperative Bank, where Baba rested that night, was in the other part. A garden faced the building, and for a while Baba paced back and forth there. The bank's night watchman (whose name was Tattayya) had a hut there, and Baba sat on his verandah, thus sanctifying his humble abode.