Baba gestured, "Remember that I am God!"
One evening Sam Kerawala came to Guruprasad. He was a merchant marine radio officer on a ship, and had come home on a six-month leave.
Baba asked him, "Do you love Roshan [his wife] more than me?"
"I cannot say," said Sam, "but I don't feel as restless to see you as I do to see Roshan."
"Do you think I am away from you?" Baba inquired.
"I never think so; I always feel that you are with me."
"That is why you are not restless for me! If you become as anxious to see me as you do to see Roshan, you will be inspired to have that restlessness. You only think that I am with you, but you never try to see me with you. If you do that, you will have that restlessness for me."
Meanwhile, unbeknown to Bhau, Baba's oldest nephew, Sheroo, was daily singing the prayer You Alone Exist before Baba. In a few of the lines which Baba had dictated for the prayer, it said: "You are insects, you are dogs, cats, asses, pigs, snakes," and other creatures, some of them disagreeable.
Baba would retire at 3:00 P.M., and at that time, Bhau would come downstairs from his room to attend to Baba. One afternoon Deshmukh and Bal Natu began laughing at him, saying they did not like the words of the prayer he had composed. "Which prayer?" he asked, puzzled, and they told him.
"What sort of prayer is this?" Bal Natu taunted. "Could you not have chosen better examples than mosquitoes, bugs and gnats when describing God's sublime attributes?" They did not know that Baba himself had composed these lines, and Bhau said nothing in reply.
Disturbed when he met with Baba, Bhau asked whether he should change the prayer and use other words, explaining that people were laughing at it, mocking the choice of words.
"Don't change a single word," Baba replied. "It is all right. You have no idea, no idea about the importance of this prayer. In the future, this prayer will be sung in homes throughout the world."
Begum Akhtar and Shantadevi came to Guruprasad and saw Baba at 9:30 A.M. on Friday, 3 May 1963, along with others from Bombay and Poona. Hundreds from various parts of India assembled there the following morning, including Dr. Moorty from Calcutta, who had arrived the day before.