"In short, it is of the highest benefit for all to hold to the Avatar's daaman. Even if you lose everything, hold fast to it. I am the Avatar of this Age!"
Baba was on the stage to meet his lovers in the afternoon of Saturday, 3 November 1962, long before the scheduled time of 1:30 P.M., and he began greeting lovers from Nagpur, Jabalpur, Bhopal, Hamirpur and a few other places. This continued until 3:00 P.M. Several people were still waiting. Stopping the line, Baba asked those who had not yet met him to come to the meeting tent at 7:30 A.M. the next morning, the last day of the gathering.
Assuring his Western lovers of a parting embrace on the morning of the 5th, Baba added, "Once you have my Real Darshan in your hearts, there is no need to come up on the stage for darshan. I want you to love me as I should be loved, so one day you will have my Real Darshan."
Laxmikant Thade was a government social welfare officer working with poor, impoverished nomadic tribals. He had once taken Baba to their colony in Yeravda, where Baba gave darshan. With Baba's permission, Thade brought a group of these tribals to the East-West Gathering, and after they had bowed down, Baba pointed to his feet which had suddenly swelled. Thade began crying, believing his suggestion had created this additional suffering for Baba.
"Why are you weeping?" Baba asked him. "These are the people for whom I have come on this Earth."
Baba started the day's program with this message titled "My Dear Workers," which was broadcast over the microphone in Hindi, Telugu and Marathi. It was read by Darwin Shaw in English:
My dear workers: In spite of telling you very often that I will not give you any more messages or discourses, I find myself doing just this thing which is what I do not want to do. This is because most of you do things which I do not like you doing.
I had to give you a message yesterday because you expected one, and the theme of the message was on your being my children, because despite much talk about a Baba family, there is more a semblance than a reality of kinship among you who are the children of one Father. True children of one Father do not greet one another with smiles and embraces and, at the same time, harbor grudges and ill-feeling; but they have an active concern in their hearts for the well-being of one another and make sacrifices for that well-being. If you make me your Real Father, all differences and contentions between you and others and all personal problems in connection with your lives will become dissolved in the Ocean of my Love.