Baba then played marbles with his lovers. They were shown the Sakori photographs and Bhaskara Raju, Bachoobhai J. Soni, Rustom Kaka, Madhusudan and Dr. Abdur Rehman (Ghani's brother) each sang a song before Baba.
Proceeding to the meeting tent at 2:40 P.M., Baba asked if Nusserwan Satha was present. He had gone off somewhere with Adi Sr., but returned in ten minutes. Until then Baba heard songs by Bhaskara and Ramabhadra Raju, including "Namo Meher Baba, Avatar, Namo Dev Deva."
Exactly at 3:00 P.M., Baba's Final Declaration was read out in four languages — by Eruch in English, Deshmukh in Marathi, Keshav Nigam in Hindi and Kutumba Sastri in Telugu:
I am very happy to have you all here.
I know that many of you have come to Meherabad under very difficult circumstances. Some of you have covered thousands of miles, and even crossed continents to be at Meherabad today. It is your deep love for me that has braved all obstacles and prompted you to sacrifice your comforts and conveniences to honor my call and to be near me today.
I am deeply touched by your devotion, and I am proud of the hearts that contain such love and loyalty.
There are many more devoted hearts like yours yearning to be present here, but these are not to be seen in your midst today. I know that in spite of their intense desire to be near me, they could not possibly come for one reason or another. Therefore they depend on you to convey to them in detail all that you see and hear during these two days of unique opportunity that has fallen to your lot. I trust you will not fail them.
Although you are present here with all love and faith in me, and though you feel blessed to have my personal contact, yet I know that you will not realize today, as you ought to, the true significance of my call and your presence here at this juncture. Time alone will make most of you realize, not many months from now, the significant importance of this assembly.
The time is fast approaching when all that I have repeatedly stressed, from time to time, will definitely come to pass. Most of you will witness those events, and will recall very vividly all that transpires during these two days of your stay at Meherabad.
I have not come to establish anything; I have come to put life into the old. I have not come to establish retreats or ashrams. I create them for the purpose of my Universal work, only to repeatedly dissolve them once that purpose has been served.