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Chapter 35: Guruprasad, 1960

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Irwin did not know.
Baba continued, "I want you to be here every morning at 7:30 A.M. Meherjee will pick you up at your hotel and you will stay with me during the day. He will take you somewhere for lunch and bring you back, and you will remain with me until I dismiss everyone. After that he will take you for dinner and show you a different part of Poona each day."
Baba then instructed Meherjee to take Irwin to Babajan's tomb that evening, and to other places of interest on subsequent days.
Irwin told Baba of how disappointed his brother Edward was not to have been allowed to come.
Baba assured him, "Edward has done something noble. I am pleased with him. It would have been better if you had come together as you had written, because you would have benefited more. But Edward should not worry. Edward will benefit the same as yourself. It is just as if he were right here, as far as any spiritual benefit he could derive is concerned."
Baba instructed that a telegram to this effect be sent to Edward. Francis was to assist Irwin in composing it, as Irwin found it difficult to concentrate on anything but Baba.
When Irwin returned home, Edward informed him that when he received the telegram, it confirmed an amazing experience that was happening to him. When Irwin had gone to Baba in India, Edward had begun to feel Baba's presence so strongly and so much love from Baba, that when he would walk in the street or on the beach, people would often turn around and look at him. They, too, apparently felt something wonderful as he passed, and looked at Edward, trying to identify its source.
For the next seven days, Irwin Luck came to Guruprasad every morning at 7:30 A.M. and stayed all day until 5:00 P.M. During a few riotous games of La Risque in the afternoons, Irwin was so confused he would look up at Baba and say, "I just can't figure this game out!"
Baba would pat him on the head, and gestured with his expression, "It's okay."
Francis tried to explain it to him, but he only became more confused.
On Thursday, 2 June 1960, devotees from Andhra arrived for darshan. There were so many from Andhra that two programs had to be held the next day, one from 9:00 to 11:00 in the morning and the other from 1:00 to 3:00 in the afternoon, to accommodate all and enable each person to have Baba's darshan.
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