Every day Baba asked Filis Frederick about the pain in her hip. One day she confessed that it was quite bad.
Baba looked at her a long time and then told her, "I am giving you a bit of my infinite suffering."
Baba instructed Dr. Kenmore to treat her and remarked, "There is no remedy for my pain, but I feel happy."
The elderly Ruth White arrived late, and Baba had someone tell her about the program up to the 29th.
Then he asked, "Who did not sleep well last night?"
Several people gave reasons such as thinking of Baba, or not feeling well. Some of the children also said they did not sleep well.
Baba teased, "The children are not well. Too much ice cream and cake, and they dreamt others were gnawing at them!"
Baba then inquired, "Who did sleep well?"
Hands went up, and Baba asked, "Why? You all should sleep well. If you don't sleep, do not let it worry you. Remember me more, but do not purposely keep awake just to remember me. But if you cannot sleep for any reason, repeat my name."
Baba then had the discourse on the "Law of Must" read out, which concluded with:
The rule of this inexorable Law of Must governs and reshapes the so-called destiny of man in every incarnation, as long as the "self" of man remains conscious of impressions. The principle of must which overrides human plans is based on Divine Law, which both adjusts and gets adjusted by evolutionary impressions. It is only the Divine Will that can supersede the Divine Law.
The so many deaths during the one whole life, beginning from the evolution of consciousness to the end of the involution of consciousness, are like so many sleeps during one lifetime. One who lives for himself is truly dead, and one who dies for God is truly alive.
Baba further explained:
How God is beyond imagination, I will explain in a few words. God has no beginning. Can you imagine when God was not? Suppose your imagination takes you as far back as billions and trillions of years, and the answer is still: God was. But what was before God? And again the answer is: God was. Therefore, can anybody imagine what was before God? Or how it all began? Even imagination cannot carry us to any idea of how God began — how everything began. To think of having no beginning cannot be imagined.
"Don [Stevens], how do you think of it?"
"As a circle," Don replied.
Baba continued:
There is no beginning. However, let us imagine the beginning of the Beginning.