See how help comes automatically. Nozar has come to me, but he left Rs.1,000 to me. This brings the total to 2,000. Last year I had been to Andhra on a darshan tour. The reception committee had collected funds for that purpose. After deducting expenses of Baba's tour, the reception committee saved Rs.1,200. They offered it toward the sahavas. I did not want any strings attached to the offer. So the South Indian devotees' reception committee's contribution of 1,000 brings the total for the poor to 3,000. Now we must please Pendu and try to knock out an additional 1,000 from him. That would make Rs.4,000 in all.
Baba had Pendu called, and said that he wanted at least Rs.1,000 from each group for the poor account.
Baba joked, "If the funds are insufficient for the last Maharashtrian group, they will have to live on chutney-bhakar [meaning, cheap food] for the week. I will discourse on some spiritual matters, and they will be so pleased they will gladly agree to be satisfied with only chutney and bhakar. I know the trick."
Everyone laughed and Pendu accepted this. Baba allowed him to extend the sleeping accommodations on condition that Baba's sahavas work in the hall was not disturbed.
Addressing the group Baba stated:
Tomorrow we have the poor program from nine to ten o'clock in the morning. Yesterday we dealt with two points — love and obedience. Today we will take up "binding." I am always free. But as soon as I come down, I get myself bound. Think how great must be your luck. Those who thirst for God, I do not appear before, whereas you have my sahavas! So take the fullest advantage of this opportunity.
I am the Highest of the High and the lowest of the low. The intermediary state is of talking, joking, playing. What you see is only my physical body. I am also with those in the first plane, in the second plane, up to the seventh plane. In the same way, I am everywhere, with and in everything and everybody. Everything and everybody is equidistant from me. Gradually people come in my contact, they get intimately connected with me and dedicate everything. They become entirely dependent on me. This process is repeated in every Avataric period. What I have been telling you will have to be repeated before each of the other three groups. I will keep back nothing.