Love such as the masts have is very, very rare. And fortunately, therefore, it is not necessary for you to possess that in order to attain God. Obedience alone is enough for you. All you have to do is to obey me and nothing else will matter. It is as easy as that to attain what is well-nigh impossible to attain!
Baba ended by saying, "I have explained a lot of things. Rumi says: 'Words have no meaning; become the man of Experience!' And for that, become effaced — become dust at the feet of the Perfect Master."
Baba signaled that it was time for everyone to leave. They could hardly believe that it was 4:30 P.M. After a full and joyous day in Baba's company, they departed.
Chhagan had made the arrangements for the pandal erected at Meherazad and the refreshments. Adi Sr. and others of Ahmednagar had also worked tirelessly, staying up the previous night, as they arranged for chairs, entertainment, and transportation to and from Meherazad. Inevitably, prior to such gatherings, Baba would repeatedly send notes, revising the invited guest list along with other instructions to send telegrams and telephone calls to different persons.
On 8 December 1962, the day before the big event, Adi noted in his diary: "[Today] Baba throws everyone into a confusion [tizzy], almost amounting to being driven mad! Eruch expresses that Baba is bent on doing it [driving the mandali mad]."
In Meherazad, Baba continued his seclusion and work with Kaikobad, though he would also spend time with the mandali daily. Baba forewarned the mandali about the difficult times ahead in the coming year, but said that by the end of 1963 there would be "success" in his work. For two weeks prior to entering into a deeper seclusion, he sent many, many telegrams and messages to different lovers to "buck them up," in Adi's words, "to [encourage them to] hold on to his daaman so that the most troublesome and disastrous year of 1963 may not cause them to go astray."
Meherjee saw Baba at Meherazad on 14 December and Adi's nephew Mehlu came the following day from Nasik. Baba asked Mehlu why he had not attended the East-West Gathering, and Mehlu replied that he had not known about it.
On 19 December 1962, Baba instructed Adi to add the following in a letter to Maharani Shantadevi: "Next year is most important and critical. Baba wants to know if Guruprasad will be available to him throughout the next year so that he can come and go whenever he likes, and also will you be free to come and go whenever he calls you?"