This receiving and guiding of lovers continued day and night until the final day of the program.From all lodging places telephone connections had been made to Guruprasad, from where the workers were managing everything.Everyone had been assigned duties, and all were kept busy with them day and night.
That morning, separate small groups of Western women were called to Guruprasad.Jeanne Shaw, Ella Winterfeldt, Adele Wolkin and Filis Fredrick arrived first, at 9:30 A.M.Baba embraced each of them.The women mandali, and also Arnavaz and Maharani Shantadevi were present.Mani read Baba's gestures.
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Baba asked Filis, "How is your hip today?"
She said fine and asked about his hip.
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Baba gestured, "So-so."
Knotting up his sadra in his hands, he pointed to Ella Winterfeldt, "Hold on tight to my daaman.You all say I look well, but I carry this whole burden [meaning the world]."
When Jeanne Shaw's turn came to greet Baba, she fell on her knees to embrace him, and Baba hugged her for a long while.He questioned her about her heart attack.
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"How long before the sahavas did it happen?"
Jeanne said four days.Baba was pleased that she had been brave enough to come.She began to sob with great love, and Baba took her face between his hands and kissed her cheek.She kissed him back.Her earring fell off in Baba's lap, and he picked it up and handed it back to her, kissing her again.
Jeanne later recalled: "It was really one of, if not the, happiest days of my life.There was so much joy, the very air was vibrating with it, and I felt myself vibrating with the waves of love.I felt warm, tearful, joyful, as did several of the women."
Others came in, including Margaret Craske, Elizabeth Patterson, Ivy Duce, Kitty Davy, Delia DeLeon, Enid Corfe, Anita Vieillard, Jane Haynes and Carrie Ben Shammai, followed by several women from Australia.
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After embracing all, Baba commented, "Tomorrow there will be discourses.Anita has to be serious!It is something new — about the 'Four Journeys.'A new book of discourses is coming out [ The Everything and The Nothing ].I am giving it to Denis O'Brien, an Australian, to publish — not to Ivy!Ivy has too much on her mind!"
Baba kept teasing Ivy Duce about all her problems, but she took it in good humor.
Elizabeth Patterson, Eruch; East-West Gathering, November 1962
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