Tomorrow morning, all of you should wait near the pandal when I do the poor work. At that time, repeat "Parabrahma Paramatma" as long as the work lasts. It may take an hour or a little more. Do not say "Baba" but say "Parabrahma Paramatma." After the program is over, you can take my name, and it is best then to repeat my name always and under all circumstances. While doing the poor work, I become the poorest of the poor, so do not repeat "Baba" because I am then the poorest of the lot and it is no use repeating my name!
After a fifteen-minute break, the entire Marathi group reassembled in the hall at 9:30 A.M.
Someone asked Baba about the small cut on his right hand, and he replied, "During my last visit to Arangaon, someone's fingernail accidentally pierced my skin."
Sending for Ambika Charan Shukla of Raipur, Baba had his name called out, and before Shukla entered the hall, Baba began speaking about him.
Eruch had trouble deciphering Baba's gestures, but finally was able to convey what Baba wanted: "I always experience that I am omnipresent everywhere. Yesterday, I saw Ambika Charan sitting in the right-hand corner of the hall. In the afternoon I found him outside the hall. This morning he was sitting in the left-hand corner of the hall, and now he is at the back! This makes me wonder whether Shukla is also everywhere!"
Shukla and the others laughed. Then L. K. Karandikar of Barsi sang a sweet rendering of one of Tukaram's bhajans.
Digambar Gadekar stood up to take a snapshot of Baba, and Baba remarked, "You are very clever!"
After the music, Baba addressed the gathering:
From 15 February 1956, I am going away for one year. Why, where and for what, I alone know. I will be absent from my lovers, the mandali and the dependents for a year. However, I may take four or five of the mandali with me. I am not going out to give darshan or sahavas. I am disconnecting myself and will remain aloof from those near me. Therefore, no one should correspond with me or with Eruch. Those who have to say anything may write to Adi.