The following day, Baba asked the mandali, "Why is it so impossible to find God? It is because you are looking for something you have never lost."
On the 18th, Baba posed another question: "If God is One, then what is meant by 'many'?"
Eruch said, "It must be that which is not-God."
Baba said, "What is it that is not-God, because God is Everything?"
Eruch replied, "God's shadow cannot be God."
Baba said, "Therefore, not-God is God's shadow, which is Maya. As God is infinite, Maya — God's shadow — is also infinite. But Maya too is One. Being the principle of ignorance, it cannot be more than One. So if God is One and if Maya is one, what is then the many?"
Baba continued, "God is indivisible infinity; maya is divisible infinitude. Therefore God is indivisible infinite One, whereas Maya is One infinitely divisible ."
The same day, Baba reminded Francis, "Do not forget that I am God. After two and a half months, the whole world will see it." He added, "Very hard days are ahead."
Baba instructed that from the following day, the reading of newspaper headlines and articles to him was to be stopped.
On 22 August 1959, Baba asked the mandali, "What is the meaning of this: 'Let me bask in humiliation; protect by understanding and not with sympathy. Make it sweet, not bitter.' Guess what this means."
He did not supply an answer.
Although Baba was able to walk unaided from his house to the men's side, his health was far from good. He would return from Kaikobad's room looking completely exhausted. After entering the hall, he would rest in his chair for several minutes, closing his eyes. A bamboo stool was placed in front of him on which he rested his legs.
One day, looking very tired after his work, he remarked, "I am not only infinitely tired, but infinitely tired of being tired. But my work must and will be done."
Once Baba was sitting with the mandali and brought up the subject of the play he had asked Soman to write in Marathi when Baba was at Guruprasad. Interrupting the discussion, Meherdas exclaimed, "Baba, there should be a play in Hindi also."
Baba agreed, "Yes, I want someone to write it in Hindi, but who will do it?" Remaining quiet for a few moments, he then addressed Bhau, "Why don't you write it?"