I am not limited by form. I am within everyone and within you as the Real Guide. Following me does not mean that you have to leave everything and stay near me. It does not mean you are to leave your worldly duties and responsibilities and become burdensome to me. It does not mean you are to use me as a board on which to dump your worries, nor that you are to expect me to fulfill your wants. It means that you are to be completely resigned to my will, and abide in a spirit of total surrender.
To follow me is to obey me, to do as I want. When my will becomes your Way, you are then truly following me. Then you are saved; then you are safe. I know the Way and its labyrinths, for I am the Way. I am the Goal.
Once at Guruprasad, two women happened to arrive at the same time and requested permission to meet Baba. One was an Indian and the other was from the Netherlands. Baba called the Indian inside first, and after some time she came out happy and radiant at seeing Baba and having had his darshan. Just as the woman from the Netherlands was about to enter, Baba sent a message to stop her. Instead, Eruch was sent to comfort her that Baba would not be able to see her. Naturally, she was disappointed after all her expectations, and she left quite upset. Sarosh later asked Baba why he had not seen her.
Baba explained, "The first one was, of course, fortunate to have had my darshan, but the second woman was even more fortunate because I pricked her heart, and she will now remember me more."
A program of bhajan singing by the Poona bhajan mandali was held at Guruprasad in the afternoon of the 17th, from 3:30 to 6:00 P.M. Only close, selected ones from Poona were invited and they had a good opportunity for Baba's sahavas.
Hoshang Bharucha had secretly planned to visit Baba on 1 December 1958, after Baba's seclusion ended. He had not told anyone his intention except his sister, and he was, therefore, greatly surprised when a letter from Eruch came on 29 November, stating that Baba wished to see him in Poona on 17 January. So he abandoned his original plan and met Baba at this time.
During Baba's stay in Poona, except for visiting the Jessawala family at Bindra House a few times, Baba did not go anywhere else. But he did make one exception. The superintendent of the Yeravda Reformatory School, B. S. Khare, requested that he visit the institution and give darshan to its students. The boys were juvenile delinquents (some for thievery) and were kept in the school to learn some vocation and thus be able to take care of themselves in the future and fit into society.