Every one of you, man or woman, of any caste or creed, has an equal right to attain Divinity, and external renunciation is not at all necessary. Everyone, man or woman, while attending to all duties in the everyday walk of life, can attain to Divine Fatherhood and Universal Brotherhood through honest love for God.
I can say with divine authority that I experience eternally and consciously and continually being One with you all and One in you all. Any worship or obeisance done to any deity, animate or inanimate, to any saint, guru, yogi or advanced souls eventually comes to me. By offering pure, unadulterated love to anyone and anything you will be loving me.
And, let me assure you, on divine authority, that we are all One. Being rich or poor, literate or illiterate, of high caste or low caste, does not matter in loving God, our Supreme Beloved. I give you all my blessings for the understanding that loving God in any form, in any way, will make you eternally free.
Baba added:
Reality pulls you toward Itself, and illusion pulls you toward itself. If you let go the pull of Reality, you get drowned in the ocean of illusion. If you lean toward both, you get crushed. So let go the pull of illusion through love and become one with Reality.
Before distributing his prasad of plantains, Baba stated to the crowd: "I will now give prasad. Do not bow down to me or garland me. What I give with love, accept with love, and the sooner you come, the better chance you give to others, because I will only sit here until six this evening."
Nearly 6,000 were already present and people continued to push forward in line. But Baba stopped the distribution of plantains at six o'clock and left for his residence. Before leaving, he touched the remaining prasad, which the workers distributed among the crowd after he departed.
On Thursday morning, 4 March 1954, Baba met Nana Kher, Pankhraj, Gajanan Pophali, Hellan, Keshav Nigam, Pukar, Sripat Sahai, Kumar, Gaya Prasad, Bhavani Prasad, Dhar, Ganjoo and others who were to leave that day for their respective homes. Baba embraced each one, and Gajanan expressed what perhaps all were thinking: "Baba, I want to stay with you."
"What are you doing now?" Baba asked.
"I am unemployed at the moment."
"I too am unemployed," Baba joked. "So you'd better go away for now. I will see about it later."