(a) During the period of my stay in Jal Villa, Satara, I will not step out of the central rooms of the bungalow.
(b) I may or may not eat and sleep regularly for the duration of the crisis.
(c) I am not bound to remain at any one place during or after the first month of my retirement. I may change my plans at any moment, and might undertake to go on foot from place to place, or go into even greater solitude.
No one should under any circumstances come to see me or communicate with me, directly or indirectly, for any reason whatsoever up to the end of July 1955.
All those closely connected with me, all those who love me, and all those who care to follow my instructions, must be scrupulously honest, must strictly abstain from sexual actions, and must try to spread my message of Love and Truth as far and wide as possible during the period of crisis of three months.
After Eruch finished reading the circular in English, Deshmukh and Dhake translated it immediately into Marathi. Eruch read it again in English, as wished by Baba. Baba then said:
Now I will explain about holding fast to my daaman. Hold me, or leave me! Don't try to compromise. One thing is definite and fixed: if I am the Highest of the High or if I am the lowest of the low, and you hold fast to my daaman, you will be where I will be. This depends on how fast is your grip on my daaman. It matters not if you are saints or sinners.
I will give you one example. In my boyhood, I liked very much to fly kites. You know that kites have long tails and as they soar high in the skies, the tails flutter vigorously. If they hold fast to the kite, they go where the kite flies. It matters little whether the tails are stuck with fine gum or some dirty thing. What is needed is that the grip should not loosen. In the same way, whether you are sinners or saints, if you hold fast to my daaman, you will be wherever I will be.
Now, by holding fast means what? It means to keep Baba pleased always. And how to please him? By your obeying him wholeheartedly!
All these years, it was I who held fast to your garment. Now the time has come that you should hold firm to mine. Sometimes I think no one from among you can do that, for I myself cannot do it!