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Chapter 38: Guruprasad Garden, 1963

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After the opening of the Poona Center, hardly any outside visitors were permitted to come to Guruprasad. On Monday, 25 May 1964 at 2:00 P.M. at Guruprasad, Kishore Mistry, and Nene and his family met Baba to discuss the marriage between Kishore and Rajni, Nene's daughter. (The marriage took place at the end of July.) The Sakhares were granted darshan on the 28th.
A year before, in 1963, Baba had instructed Amar Singh Saigal to inform the Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, to come to Guruprasad to meet him. Although Saigal informed him of Baba's wish, Nehru did not take the time to come.
After Baba's arrival in Poona in 1964, when Bhau was on night duty, daily Baba would ask him, "I am in seclusion, and what will happen if Nehru comes abruptly?"
Bhau replied, "Nehru won't come like that, Baba. If he wishes to see you, first he will send someone to make an appointment, and when he does, we will inform him that no meeting is possible because you are in seclusion."
"What will happen if he comes without an appointment?" Baba asked.
"It cannot happen, Baba. Nehru is too busy!"
"But if it does?"
Thus the questions and answers would go back and forth every day, as soon as Bhau came for his nightwatch.
But on 26 May 1964, at about 2:30 P.M., Baba announced to the mandali, "Jawaharlal will come to me soon; he will have to come!"
Baba added, "Due to his sheer energy and will power, Jawaharlal has recovered rapidly from his recent stroke. But if he gets another setback [a second heart attack or stroke], he will not survive but will pass away immediately."
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