Understandably, his closer lovers felt nervous in his presence. But though Baba was scolding each — it was much better than his inactive, disinterested and passive mood of the previous two years!
On the 18th, Baba commented, "For the leader of a people to lead his people rightly, by fulfilling their deepest trust in him, he must lead them to a Perfect Master."
On 21 April 1963, the third darshan Sunday, many were already present at Guruprasad since early that morning. They were packed into the corner room, but Baba would not move into the hall, even though Eruch suggested it.
Baba asked Hoshang Bharucha, "Did you sleep last night?" On his answering in the affirmative, Baba remarked, "I could not sleep even for five minutes. The pressure of the work was tremendous."
(Baba had had a fever the previous day also.)
After settling in Guruprasad in March, Baba asked his nephew Sheroo to sing the prayer "You Alone Exist" ( Tumi Tau Ho ). Dictated mainly by Baba, but with some lines from Bhau, it was called "Bhau's Prayer." Since Sheroo could not read Hindi, the couplets were given to Mani and Eruch to arrange in sequence, and they wrote out the entire prayer-poem in English script. At this time, Bhau was preoccupied upstairs in his room translating and rewriting The Everything and The Nothing into Hindi, while others were present with Baba and the visitors. Bhau did not know that Baba asked Sheroo to sing this prayer every day, and Baba did not inform anyone that he himself had composed it. Those present were under the false impression it was Bhau's prayer alone. Sheroo sang the prayer very sweetly in Hindi.
Afterwards the discussion drifted to the workings of maya .
At one point, Baba explained, "Maya can be compared to ringworm on one's skin. The more you scratch, the more you want to scratch and the more pained and miserable you become. In the same way, the more you indulge in maya, the more you want to get involved in it and one becomes all the more pained and miserable."
Shortly thereafter, Homa Dadachanji walked in and sat down.
Baba asked him, "Did you sleep well last night?"
He replied, "Very well, Baba."
Baba joked, "What sort of love do you have for me? I did not sleep even for five minutes, while you enjoyed very good sleep!"