There is no time even for serious talk, so where is the time for me to indulge in gossip? I called them simply to inquire about their welfare, and not necessarily for any interview or gossip.
There are some lovers who are obedient to me and want to adhere 100 percent to the latest circular and they ask, "Baba, others have been called by you to your cabin for an interview, but what crime have we committed except that we are obeying your circular, and yet you do not call us?" Their obedience is of that type!
I have been meeting my lovers of Poona, Bombay and Gujarat so often. If someone from that group insists on an interview and tells me what I just said not to do, it hurts me. Each one approaching me says he will only take a short time, just five minutes. If Poona and Bombay people ask for such a privilege, it hurts me. Therefore, let us come to some conclusion, and I want your final word. Either you should come individually today and tomorrow and spend the whole sahavas period like that, or you should drop the idea of individual interviews and be here in this meeting pandal where I shall remain with you all, give discourses and listen to the singing of the bhajans, and thus you can all see me and I can be with you all here. Do decide and tell me which you prefer. On the one hand, I want you all to hear certain important things which I want to tell you. If you all take me to be God, and God is all-knowing, what is it that makes some of you come to me individually and bring your difficulties?
For those on the spiritual path, I am the Sun giving life and light to them. There are some who burn themselves to ashes in the heat and light of the Sun. Some want only the warmth of the Sun, and take care to be away from the intensity of the light. There are others who want to be in the comfortable shade and also carry an umbrella when treading the Path. These three types are on the spiritual path.
Baba again referred to individual private interviews, which several sought, in spite of his circular.
"I want your word and decision," he said. "For me it is all the same, whether I am here in the meeting pandal or in my cabin giving interviews."