About his lovers in America, Europe and Australia, Baba stated: "Just think of the love of my Western lovers. How considerate they are and how mindful they are about my health. They only look to my will and pleasure. Consider their obedience that they were ready to come from such a long distance to participate in the sahavas had I wished that. They have accepted the change in the plan of the sahavas."
Baba asked: "Now what do you understand when I tell you to make your hearts my centers?"
Answering himself, Baba stated: "The devotion you express in your bhajan singing and talks about me shape your lives according to what you express. Now I tell you, in your daily lives be more careful of your thoughts, words and actions. If you go against what you express, it would be an insult to me."
With a smile, Baba continued: "One good thing common to you all is that you love me and fight among yourselves!"
Everyone laughed and Gadekar said, "Baba, now there is an end to our quarrels. We work as a team."
But Ramakrishnan interjected, "Baba, I wish to say that there are still some honest differences of opinion regarding the nature of work we do at the Center. Some among our group say that you, being the Avatar, alone can do the Avataric work, and they think there is no need for them to work in the way that is being done through the Center."
In response, Baba observed: "It is good if some of my lovers have faith in me as the Avatar. If they have this conviction, what more is required? I alone am in everyone. So where is work and worker?
"I alone exist everywhere. What exists, what is happening, what is being done, he who does it — in all these I am. But who has that firm faith? If you take me as the Avatar, I am That, omnipresent, and I have become everything and every being. And for those who now believe in me as the Ancient One, it becomes natural that when I do my Avataric work, they too should work in my cause. But once one has the full trust that I am the Avatar, for him there will be no work. It will all be sahaj ."
Baba proceeded to explain: "If I am the Avatar, which undoubtedly I am, it will not affect me in the least if the whole world turns against me. If I am not the Avatar and the whole world bows at my feet and sings songs in my praise, of what use is it? But I know that I am the Highest of the High. And so I say, Love me; it is worth loving me.