Baba informed his lovers, "When you reach your homes, write one letter directly to me — only to me — then no more letters. Next year, I want to finish my Universal work, so I do not want crowds of people coming to me, not even the Easterners. This will help me finish my work soon.
Looking at Anita, Baba teased, "When you are here, I cannot work!"
Baba then asked all the Westerners to be in the pandal at 1:45 P.M. There would be no embraces.
He asked Dana Field, "Are you worried? Didn't you hear what Hafiz said, not to grieve?
"Who else is worried?"
No one answered.
"If no one is worrying, I have to worry. But my worry is great fun for me! It's a very old habit of mine to worry for the whole creation, to worry continuously for the release of souls from the bondage of life and death.
"It's great fun! Some come to me to heal their diseases, to bless them with better prospects, or for a job, or for children, or because they have too many children! And I have to worry about all those things in addition to my universal worries."
Baba continued, "You see me sitting here with you, but I am simultaneously on all the planes of consciousness, on all those stations on the chart that is here before you. There are souls in the subtle world who want me, and I am there with them. And there are those in the mental world who want me, and I am there with them.
"You are in the gross world, so you find me with you in the gross world. Those in the subtle world find me in the subtle world, and those in the mental world find me in the mental world. And one rare one who finds me as I really am is blessed.
"But remember not to worry. Take the advice of Hafiz and do not worry. Do not grieve."
This ended the morning session.
One morning after Baba dismissed them, everyone filed out except Aneece Hassen's sister, Nancy Ameen. She came forward and had a few private moments with Baba. Brynar Mehl too once asked if he could come forward after the hall had emptied. Baba smiled and motioned for him to come. "I didn't know why I wanted to see him," Mehl recalled. "I just wanted to be there."