"And then: 'Beloved, Your simplicity is your beauty. Your beauty is your simplicity.'
"The lover says: 'Do not leave me once you have embraced me, for now it is a question of life and death for me ... It is impossible to be united with you; so I only pine to suffer the pangs of your love.' "
Baba then asked Mona Sakhare to recite the Master's Prayer.
She felt nervous and Baba remarked to her, "I am the only one here, so why worry? I alone hear you."
Afterwards, Baba asked a few to wait and motioned to the others to go for lunch and return at 2:30 P.M. Those who stayed behind enjoyed playing several games of La Risque with Baba. There were 36 persons who played. The losing party (usually the party opposing Baba) had to rub their noses on the floor. After a few games, they went for lunch, too.
The Bombay group came early at 2:00 P.M. Freny Dadachanji was standing in the hall near the door leading into Mehera's room, when Baba came out holding Goher's arm. He walked toward her, and she saw indescribable suffering on his face.
"My leg is painful," he gestured. "I cannot sit, so I will go inside for a little while."
He came back out after five minutes and sat among them. There were only four or five persons in the hall.
In the afternoon Baba remarked that none except a few of the mandali knew how much work he had done incognito for the poor. Eruch told several stories of Baba's work with the poor, and many had tears in their eyes.
In the end, Baba remarked, "Formerly, I used to go in search of people; now people come in search of me."
He further commented, "I was completely free before, and what a 'whim' I got that bound me in this creation! Actually, there is no past or future. Only this moment exists. Past and future are ingrained in this present moment, which is eternity itself.
"It is so difficult to see me as I am. Even Judas, who had lived with Jesus from childhood, could not know him as the Christ. Krishna said that due to yug-maya [maya of that age], people did not know him as eternal and infinite. Whatever you see is not God. When 'you' are not, then you see God!"