Baba concluded, "Hafiz has given us consolation."
Francis Brabazon read his own rendition of Hafiz's ode, titled "Be Not Grieved."
Although you have not received love's guerdon, One day this desert will become a garden — so be not grieved.
Do not turn your heart away, nor expostulate against the Beloved, But bear your present state — and be not grieved.
Let this disgusted mind and troubled heart be stilled, One day desire for union will be fulfilled — so be not grieved.
Behind the curtain a secret game is being played that you know not, So do not give up, nor be dismayed — nor grieved. Once you have set out for the Beloved's abode Do not let mere stones and thorns turn you from the road — nor be much grieved.
Maya will do her best to thwart your labor, But when you have a captain like Noah, you will reach safe harbor — so be not grieved.
Although the way is full of dangers and seems to have no end, There is an end to every beginning with this Friend — so be not grieved.
When this Friend is the same as God, do not plague him with petitions, But suffer gladly love's rules, trials and conditions — and be not grieved.
Baba then commented, "What is there to worry about? So don't worry! Yesterday, it rained and you got drenched. What did happen? Nothing! Today, it is just the same here. Nothing happened yesterday; it is just today!"
Baba took a large glass in his hands which was covered with bright golden paper and marked "GOD." Inside the big glass were three other smaller ones. He explained:
Would you like me to play some tricks? Take this glass as God the Infinite. God cannot be seen with our limited eyes. He is Infinite, absolutely invisible, independent, yet He pervades everything.
Now see that there are three illusory existences inside God — three smaller glasses inside the large glass. Here is one of them, the gross world; it is the smallest [the innermost glass covered with a coppery shade]. Although to us it is so big, so infinite. This gross world depends on the next illusory existence, the subtle world [second inner glass]. The gross existence depends on the subtle and is within the subtle. And this subtle existence depends on the mental world [the third inner glass].