In a letter Freny wrote to her sister, Zarine Mavalwala, in Karachi, she mentioned Baba's condition:
I feel I am dying with pain for Baba's suffering. It is so visible these days. It is not a nice feeling. The women mandali are also in no mood for anything light, and we hardly sit with them and talk, or meet them and have feasts at Baba's dining table like we used to do last year. The feeling is one of waiting for the coming of something dreadful. Baba had previously hinted, "I will be so much aloof that you will all crave to see me." We are all getting that feeling, as if this free meeting at present will be stored for future times. Baba knows that we can only surmise, hope for the best, say his will be done, and wait and watch.
The men were to play La Risque that afternoon, and Arnavaz and Freny were told to stay and watch. About 25 men participated in the card game. As it started, Goher brought soda for Baba, and after taking two or three sips, Baba handed the rest to Freny to finish. The card game lasted until 3:30 P.M. Baba then solemnly bid them farewell, as if he were bowing down to them.
On the previous day, 12 June 1963 Baba had explained:
There are three states of a man: the awake state, the dream state and the sound sleep state. In the awake state, man uses his gross eyes for seeing, gross ears for hearing, his gross nose for smelling, and so on for all other senses. In the dream state, man uses his subtle body, and not his gross body, for all actions in the dream state. Thus in a dream, he uses his subtle eyes for seeing, subtle ears for hearing, and so on. In the sound sleep state, man's mind is completely at rest.
There are six stages of consciousness: (1) Unconsciousness; (2) Sub-consciousness; (3) Consciousness; (4) Sub-superconsciousness; (5) Superconsciousness; and (6) God-consciousness.
In the Beyond, Beyond state of God, there is unconsciousness, but everything comes out of this state. In the subconscious state, there are seven stages of gaseous existence. Consciousness begins from the stone form, where it is very rudimentary. During the evolutionary process of seven stages of forms, culminating in the human form, consciousness is fully developed. But due to the accumulation of sanskaras during the evolutionary process, man does not become conscious of God.