“”Now that I have stopped accepting gifts and helping others, those who are willing to give, keep the amounts and use them for my work. I have asked the Westerners to help the Poona Center with a Rs.25,000 donation. Worldly pursuits are meaningless. They lack substantiality. Everyone on the spiritual path undergoes suffering, and I am the Master of all. My time is near. After that, there will be an upheaval. After 50 years, there will be neither Soonu nor his theater. All these worldly thoughts and talks have nothing in them.
Baba advised the Ahmednagar Center workers:
“”Eschew petty-mindedness. What is the use of the Center if there is discord among my lovers? You can say: "Avatar Meher Baba ki jai!" only if your heart is clean and you have love for me. Then your Jai will be spontaneous, coming as it will from the heart. One single, sincere lover is enough compared to these squabblers. Be loving, honest and harmonious. Keep on attending Center meetings and meeting one another lovingly.
Baba instructed Adi to give the Center Rs.500, which would be paid back to Adi after a sizeable donation was received from another source. Baba further remarked:
“”Let the Center organizers decide among themselves in whose name an account should be opened in the bank, so that there may be no cause for any complaint that someone was mismanaging funds.
The aim of your Center should be to radiate whatever I say and try to live accordingly — according to my advice. If you are honest and loving, you will get plenty of funds; if not, the Center will be a burden. If you do not follow my advice, then I will see that the Center doors are bolted. The Andhra lovers are doing my work and undergoing hardships, and if they have differences of opinion among themselves, it is out of their love for me.
Do not force anyone to attend the Center meetings or thrust your opinions on him. The Hamirpur devotees have not had as much of my company as you have, but their love is intense. They celebrate every year the day and time of my visits to different places there. In the West, there are lovers ready to sacrifice their very lives on my one word.
