After five minutes, we will have prayers. After that, you may garland me, meet me, take my darshan and even embrace me; but come one after another. Do not create pandemonium. There is no urgency; there is plenty of time. My whole time will be spent in sahavas. I want you to meet me intimately, in the closest friendship.
I appear to you all to be happy and cheerful, and you must be thinking that Baba is all right. But how could you ever know how I suffer for the universe? I [alone] know how I suffer.
The last sahavas [November-December 1955] was only for men, and they requested that the women should also be given sahavas. The women were never given such an opportunity, and so I permitted them to come for this sahavas, which is chiefly for them. But since it was not possible for the women to travel alone, men were also allowed. Yet, in spite of that, I find that the number of women attending this sahavas is fewer than the men.1
And what about their children? I had to refuse their coming because they would have caused confusion. If all the men had stayed at home to care for and look after their children, the women would surely have come in larger numbers.
After the prayers, when you come to meet me, embrace me with all your heart. Today is the day for it, because half of you have the flu. If I catch it, then tomorrow, besides fever, I may have the flu also. But one thing is certain: you should not expect miracles from me. I have never performed one. Before dropping this body, I will perform the only miracle [breaking of my silence]. But I will tell you one thing: I will perform miracles through my real lovers.
How will my intimate lovers perform miracles? All these arrangements that you see here are in themselves a miracle of what my lovers have done. You have no idea how all this was accomplished. Pendu was entrusted with the arrangements. You must have seen his condition. After suffering from a brain concussion in the auto accident, he cannot think or speak clearly, but he was put in charge of everything.
Footnotes
- 1.The men outnumbered the women two to one.