I am just prefacing now. The real points will begin after the introduction is over. So listen very carefully.
The mass darshan programs at Hamirpur, U.P. [Uttar Pradesh], Andhra, and the Deccan have been enough now. And I tell you as gospel truth with my divine authority that these programs, messages and addresses mean nothing on the spiritual path. My arti, my puja, garlanding me, bowing down to me mean absolutely nothing. From ages eternal, gods and angels have been doing my worship. So why all this unnecessary waste of money through garlands, fruits and offerings? What I want is real work done.
Baba then touched on the question of miracles, which in the East and the West had been attributed to him. Referring to the jeep accident, he revealed to Ranga Rao:
On the basis of my divine honesty, I tell you in this life till now I have not consciously performed any miracle. It was not I who saved you all. This meeting saved you. What I want to say is that by attributing these miracles, people make me very cheap and lower my status as the Highest of the High. But this I do say today, that the moment I break my silence and utter that Original Word, the first and last miracle of Baba in this life will have been performed! It will be a miracle as I have never performed. I will not raise the dead, but will make those who live for the world dead to the world and alive in God. I will not give sight to the blind, but will make those who see illusion blind to illusion, so that they can see God as the only Reality.
Baba then apprised the workers of the reasons for calling them to the meeting that night:
The introduction is over and now real points start, to which you must all listen very carefully. It is about work for which you have been called here. You have been called workers. You must understand what work is. You Andhra workers, big and small, rich and poor, have done your best to make the programs successful. I know that. This I say with happiness that you have tried to express your love for me by spreading my message of love. But somehow I feel something is very wrong — deep-rooted. It is natural that among workers of any cause, political, social or spiritual, there may be differences of opinion, and not only differences of opinion, but also competition and jealousies, which lead to an absolute breakdown of the basis of work.