As she recited the invocation, Baba explained the significance of the prayer and then kissed her. He made her repeat it three times, and Armaity got three kisses too! Then Baba gave her the traditional sadra and kusti (thread), and asked her to repeat the prayer once more. Her mother dressed her in the sadra and once again the prayer was repeated. Baba embraced her and she garlanded him with flowers, as did her parents, sister and grandparents. Armaity then went inside to meet Mehera and was given sweets and gifts. Baba made her sit near him as he drank his coconut water, and gave some of it to her from his own glass. Although the ceremony took hardly five minutes, for those present there were no words to describe the sanctity they felt as Baba performed it. The atmosphere was divinely beautiful, and Baba was radiant and smiling. No Dasturji (Zoroastrian priest) could have achieved for Armaity and those gathered what Baba imparted to them that day.
Afterwards a singing program was held, and over 100 people were given a sumptuous lunch on the Guruprasad verandah. Baba sat with them and watched as they ate.
Arriving from New York, Harry Kenmore came to Poona that day. Kenmore's presence was a surprise to the mandali. He stayed for three weeks and was permitted to come to Guruprasad daily. This time he also had brought a new Polaroid camera. The new model processed colored pictures, and Kenmore had someone take several photographs of Baba with it.
During this period, Kaka Baria suffered from uremia. With Baba's consent, Adi induced Kaka to be admitted to Booth Hospital, on 31 May. According to Baba's instructions, Padri went to stay in Meherazad to oversee the property. Baba also specified that if Kaka should die, he was to be buried in Meherazad among the six mango trees behind Eruch's room.
On the morning of Saturday, 1 June 1963, Baba was not in a good mood. He had had to attend to a personal matter of one of his lovers.
He stated, "I am dragged down from my Highest state to look after such small, petty problems! The whole universe is a zero and yet I have to take care of this zero! All the miseries of the world that you experience at present will become insignificant when I break my silence. Even now, these miseries are insignificant, but you do not feel them so."
Baba announced that the first copy of his new book of discourses, The Everything and The Nothing, printed in Australia, had been sent to him by airmail. He also remarked that the other new book written by Francis Brabazon, titled The East-West Gathering, was excellent. Once, during the morning session, Baba said: