After this was over, Baba led the way into his Tomb, which the men entered in batches. Eruch explained what Baba had said to the Gujarati group.
As it was almost 10:45 A.M., there was no time to show them the other spots on Meherabad Hill, but under the tin shed Baba remarked, "How lucky you are that you have Baba physically in your midst. A few years after I drop my body, thousands will come here to pay homage at my samadhi."
All came down, and after lunch, from 1:00 to 3:30 P.M., Baba was engaged in giving individual and collective interviews. At 3:30, everyone gathered in the hall where bhajans were sung. In between songs, Baba would make some amusing remarks and chat with the group.
At one point, he interrupted someone and remarked: "I just remembered something I did not give in God Speaks. Our breathing is natural and automatic. While we inhale and exhale, we have not to concentrate on it. Even in sound sleep it continues its rhythm. It is part of us. No sooner it stops, the body drops.
"Similarly, God is very closely associated with our being. We do not know of His existence. When we exert and try to find Him through love, we come to know that God is so very, very near us and within us. Even those closely associated with me for years do not know me in the real sense — meaning, knowing through Becoming."
Devotional songs in Telugu continued for about half an hour. Adi brought some visitors from Ahmednagar, who sat near Baba for a few minutes. (Vinoo Kher and his wife had also come from Nagpur for Baba's darshan.) Baba then went back to his cabin, where he continued the interviews until 5:45 P.M., after which he departed for Meherazad.
The Telugu group went to Meherazad on Wednesday, 16 November 1955, at 7:30 A.M. Like the previous Gujarati group, they were taken up Seclusion Hill and shown around the compound and property.
They returned to Meherabad at 11:00 A.M., and Baba followed at 12:15 P.M. He went first to his cabin, where he saw a few men from the gathering. At 1:45 P.M., he came to the hall, where there was a bhajan for fifteen minutes until tea was served.
Kutumba Sastri requested that Baba introduce his mandali members, and although Baba himself did not like the idea, he asked the mandali, turn by turn, to stand up when their name was called, and introduced them as follows: