After the gathering had dispersed, Baba again coughed while drinking water at 4:35 P.M.
When the third group came to see him five minutes later, Baba mentioned this and added, "I am feeling within my heart that this body will leave me soon. The dark cloud is fast approaching and has been remembering me for the past few afternoons. I enjoyed sitting with the previous two groups. Let us not talk on serious subjects. We are here for some informal conversation."
Baba asked to hear something comical, and Dr. Moorty related how when he was shaving a few days ago, Khare had entered the bathroom in a hurry and butted in front of him. Although Moorty did not like it, he made way for Khare, and at the same time thought how funny it would be if Khare were called by Baba right at that moment when he was half-shaven. Moorty did not know Baba had arrived and, within a matter of minutes, Baba sent for Khare, who had to go with lather on one side of his face.
Baba asked Elcha if he had stolen Dr. Deshmukh's roll of movie film which he claimed he had lost. Once while Deshmukh was embracing Baba, Baba quickly lifted Deshmukh's pen from his front pocket and showed it to the others.
Hiding the pen, Baba asked Deshmukh, "Have you lost anything?"
Deshmukh looked suitably perplexed. Baba never missed an opportunity to inject humor into the proceedings.
A. C. S. Chari came in late, and Baba asked the reason for his delay and asked him to relate something funny. "Try somebody else," Chari replied morosely. (Chari was facing a personal crisis, but had not mentioned it.)
Moorty introduced P. S. V. Iyyer, secretary of the Calcutta Sai Baba Center, Sai Samaj . Iyyer related an amusing tale.
Eruch repeated what Baba had related to the other groups about his omniscience, and Baba then stated: "All this is a dream, but you do not experience it as such. If I were to give you a tap on the head while you are asleep and dreaming, you would immediately awaken and then realize it was all a dream."
Baba added, "If you serve others, let your service be honest. Think of me always. Remember me always."
Iyyer interrupted, saying he wanted to do Baba's prachar (propaganda) work.
Baba corrected him, "Don't use the word propaganda in connection with my work. My work is the dissemination of love. Sai Baba's work will not clash with mine. I am Sai Baba! If you have genuine love for Sai Baba, and if you do his work wholeheartedly, it will be doing my work."