I feel very happy to have among us the great saint Gadge Maharaj who has dedicated his life to God and to humanity. Forty-two years ago I had heard his kirtan at Poona, and the same happiness that I feel today, I felt then. Also, I am happy to have near me Godavri Mai, the favorite one of my Master Upasni Maharaj.
The one real thing to be understood is that the greatest hypocrite is he who, himself being a hypocrite, asks others not to be. I give you all my blessing.
Deshmukh read the message in Marathi, and Sarosh then read out this message from Baba:
When I say I am the Avatar, there are a few who feel happy, some who feel shocked, and many who hearing me claim this, would take me for a hypocrite, a fraud, a supreme egoist, or just mad. If I were to say every one of you is an Avatar, a few would be tickled, and many would consider it blasphemy or a joke. The fact that God being One, Indivisible, and equally in us all — that we can be naught else but one — is too much for the duality-conscious mind to accept. Yet, each of us is what the other is. I know I am the Avatar in every sense of the word, and that each one of you is an Avatar in one sense or the other.
It is an unalterable and universally recognized fact since time immemorial that God knows everything, God does everything, and that nothing happens but by the will of God. Therefore, it is God Who makes me say I am the Avatar, and that each one of you is an Avatar. Again, it is He Who is tickled through some, and through others is shocked. It is God Who acts, and God Who reacts. It is He Who scoffs, and He Who responds. He is the Creator, the Producer, the Actor and the Audience in His own Divine Play.
Continuing, Sarosh read a third message explaining Baba's silence and "How To Love God":
If you were to ask me why I do not speak, I would say I am not silent, and that I speak more eloquently through gestures and the alphabet board.
If you were to ask me why I do not talk, I would say, mostly for three reasons. Firstly, I feel that through you all I am talking eternally.