Meherjee interposed, "Just let us have a look at them."
"I have brought them for Baba!" Deshmukh protested. "I won't show them to anyone else."
At first Meherjee thought they must be of the finest variety, but when Deshmukh reached into the bag and took one out, everyone present, including Baba, burst out laughing. Again Deshmukh insisted, "Baba, you alone should eat them and not give them to anyone."
Winking at those present, Baba replied, "I will eat them and not give them away. They have no juice so I will have to chew them like this," and he began working his mouth up and down with a comical expression.
"But they are good for your health!" Deshmukh insisted.
Turning to Indumati (Deshmukh's wife), Baba asked, "Couldn't your father have found a better match for you than this madcap husband?"
Indumati laughed and Baba remarked, "Deshmukh is quite a good man, but he has gone mad in my love!"
Indumati was translating God Speaks into Marathi and daily read to Baba the portion she had translated. Her daughters, Jaishree and Pragnya, sang songs to Baba that Indumati had composed, and her son, Pranav, told him funny stories.
Baba remarked to Deshmukh, "How lucky you are! Your wife is educated, your children are quite clever, and all love me."
On 24 May 1960, 20 lovers from Hyderabad arrived at Guruprasad for Baba's darshan. That day, Baba spoke about hypocritical saints (persons who pretend to be saintly). An abhang of the Sadguru Tukaram was read aloud, wherein Tukaram mentioned: "The act of beating a hypocritical saint cannot be thought of as a sin."
Couplets of Hafiz, which pertained to such hypocrites, were also recited in Persian. One couplet of Hafiz was: "These rogues are in a way courageous; they try to deceive God! They should be flogged!"
Previously (on 13 April 1960), Baba had commented: "The only sin which God does not forgive is hypocrisy. The hypocrite deceives himself and others too. These days the hypocritical saints have increased in such numbers that, though I am the Ocean of Compassion, it has become nauseating even to me!"