I wish that you remain happy in my sahavas. This will be the last sahavas, so I want you to be happy and draw as much of my love as possible. Make the most of this opportunity. I am the Ocean of Love. It rests with you to draw as much love as you can from this Ocean. It does not rest with me to explain to you how to love me. Try to understand it. Suppose a man loves a woman and vice versa. Is it ever possible for the man to tell the woman, or the woman to tell the man how they should love each other? One thing is certain: I want to give you as much of my love as possible, but it rests with you to receive it. The easiest way is for you to forget about your home, family and worldly affairs when you are here, and try to be receptive to my love. This is the first thing required if you want to absorb the maximum of my love. The second thing is to feel completely comfortable, have a good night's rest, sleep well each night, so that when you come daily for my sahavas you will feel fresh.
I am God, and if you doze in my presence, you will miss me and your drowsiness will force you to remain absent from my presence, in spite of your daily attendance. The meaning of sahavas is intimate companionship. In order to establish this companionship, you should be free with me. You should try to be as intimate with me as possible.
Principal Niranjan Singh was sitting at a distance and, seeing him, Baba asked, "Do you want to hide yourself from me?"
Niranjan Singh laughed.
Continuing, Baba stated:
Sahavas is the intimacy of give-and-take between lovers. It is not necessary to explain this give-and-take of the lover and the Beloved. To create an atmosphere of explanations and discourses is to mar the dignity of love which is established only in the closest of intimacy. However, I would like to explain one thing — physical companionship.
About a month ago, I gave sahavas and darshan to intimate devotees in Bombay. The sahavas was in the afternoon. When I was alighting from the car to enter the sahavas program, two others also got down. They were limping. You know, these days I walk with the help of canes. Those two limping ones were Homa Dadachanji and his brother Dara. One was on each side of me; both gave me company. Dara had sprained his foot and Homa was limping because of his leg operation. Therefore, it so happened that they walked by my side, both limping. Sahavas should be of this type — physical companionship.
[Everyone laughed.]