From that time on, Merwan stopped twitching his nose. Not once did he do it again. During the ensuing years, when Baba was in strict seclusion and no correspondence was allowed, Adi and Rhoda would sit in front of Merwan and joke, "Come on, Merwan, twitch your nose so we can send a telegram to Baba!" But Merwan would reply, "Then I will also cable Baba that you made me do it."
Once in Guruprasad, Adi Dubash was playing cards with Baba. He was dealing and dealt Baba a very good hand.
Baba inquired, "Have you given me these cards on the sly? Did you deal crookedly?"
Adi admitted that he had dealt from the bottom of the deck. So Baba gently twisted his ear, and though he had not applied much pressure Adi's ear pained for several hours.
Monday, 3 June 1963, was also a day of darshan. That morning Baba entered the hall at 7:45 A.M., and newcomers took his darshan. The Ahmednagar bhajan group came and gave a heartfelt performance. Manek sang a ghazal in the morning, and Baba asked him to sing five more that afternoon.
In reference to the abundance of so-called saints and false gurus in the East, Baba at one point stopped the singing and commented: "They are like seashells scattered on the beach, their superfluous glitter attracting the loiterers on the beach, who pick them up and think they have gained the treasure of the sea. But it is a far cry from the 'Pearl' ensconced in the depths of the Ocean. And so it is that Hafiz says:
How foolish people are who compare pearls with seashells. The real pearl is here. Do not run after shells.
When Baba quoted Hafiz's "the real pearl is here," he pointed to himself. A few times he explained a line or two from a ghazal of the poet Jigar:
When I dive into the ocean of love, The waves of suffering embrace me. That embrace is like the embrace of my mother. They are chicken-hearted [cowards] who seek the safety of the shores!