After a short recess, all gathered in the hall again at 10:00 A.M. Before continuing with the proceedings, Sidhu sang some ghazals as wished by Baba, which pleased him.
Baba had dictated a circular to be issued after the meeting, but before it was read out, he observed:
It is good for you to have come when I called you; it is both good and bad for me to have done so. Why bad? When people come to know that I have called a small group meeting, in spite of my declaration not to do so, those whom I have not invited for the occasion are likely to be upset for more than one reason when you tell them, as I want you to do, all that you have seen and heard today.
This circular is of great importance, although small in content. It should be printed in different languages and distributed in all the provinces, because what I have said in it comes from the heart. And hence there is greater responsibility on those spreading its contents.
At the September meeting in Meherabad I had said that I would not be seeing anyone again. Yet now I have sent for you, asked you to come without disclosing to anyone why and where you were going. Some areas and centers are represented by more than one person among you, while others are represented by just one, and yet many others by none. At first, I thought of sending for all concerned, but that was not found to be practicable for many reasons, avoidable and unavoidable. On the other hand, mere circularizing of the instructions was not enough. You must carry my message and emphasize the importance underlying my words at this juncture of crisis for me — give the widest possible publicity to my instructions through printed translations in your regional vernaculars.
Those who live with me, as well as those who live for me in spite of being away from me, each have individual faults and weaknesses, but they have no equals, I know ... They need not necessarily know. They have been following me all these years through thick and thin. I do not mind saying that, if I were in their places, I might not have been able to stand what they have stood so splendidly so far.