After taking his seat on the armchair on the dais, Baba inquired, "Is everyone present in the pandal? If anyone is outside, he should be called in."
Looking around, he joked, "Everyone's cheeks seem round and full — only I look weak!"
But in spite of the fever and pain, Baba looked his usual radiant and genial self, irresistibly attractive and in a delightful mood.
He asked, "Who didn't sleep last night?" No one raised his hands so he remarked, "It seems I alone did not sleep."
Baba urged them to remain free from worry during the time they were at Meherabad and assured them he would meet everyone individually.
Noticing Saib Asmi, a poet from Lahore, Baba asked him to stand for a moment. He then made Balak Bhagwan sit beside him on the dais.
Observing that those attending the sahavas had tied yellow entrance badges around their left arms, Baba questioned, "Why did you do this?"
Pendu answered, "It is a means of identity for admittance to the sleeping and dining tents."
One man interjected, "It is a memento of the occasion." Dadi Kerawala had not worn his, and Baba asked him to put it on.
Baba then urged the gathering: "Remain happy as long as you are at the sahavas. Forget all troubles and difficulties, forget all household problems and only be here. I am weak, I have fever, and pain in the hip joint. Despite all this, still I am happy. I am eternally happy."
Digambar Gadekar was jotting down Baba's statements, and Baba jokingly remarked to him, "When I ask you, remind me about what you are taking down. I am over 60 now, and after 60, a man's memory gets weak."
Feram was taking down in shorthand what Baba was saying.
To him, Baba remarked, "Feram, don't leave it half-done, and don't shorten what I say either!"
Explaining the meaning of sahavas, Baba dictated:
Sahavas means the give-and-take of love. I am the only Beloved, and you all are my lovers; or, I am the only Lover and you all are my beloveds!