Frustrated, Bhau blurted out, "Where is the time for me, Baba? I have no time to reply to correspondence. I have been sitting on the verandah without work since three o'clock! I keep waiting and waiting, wondering when you will call me, but you never call me before five o'clock. I have to waste two hours every day in this way and have no time to answer correspondence."
Baba replied, "What are you saying? You are a fool! Do you think you are sitting unnecessarily? Do you think you are without work? Waiting for my call is the greatest possible work you can ever do! The work I extract from you by making you sit on the verandah cannot compare with replying to letters.
" Rishis [sages] and munis [silent yogis] in the Himalayas sit on beds of nails in the snow, so as to keep awake in my remembrance. They wait for my call for years — still I do not meet them. The nails bite into their flesh, they have no sleep, they undergo untold suffering, waiting for me until their last breath. But still I don't send for them.
"And here you are, sitting comfortably on a chair waiting for me. And it is definite that I will send for you at five o'clock. You should be happy that I call you within just two hours. You do not have to sit for years waiting for my call. I do not make you sit unnecessarily. Can it ever be a 'waste' of your time to wait for my call? You think you are sitting there without work. Tell me, is it not work to wait for my call? You have no idea what important work you are doing."
And Bhau realized the truth in what Baba was saying.
Meanwhile in America, Phil Cowans was having problems with a young woman with whom he was involved. Although she felt love and affection for Phil, she did not accept Meher Baba. Phil wrote Baba about this, and on 15 June 1964, Baba through Eruch replied: "Baba wants me to convey to you that you are not only to curtail your relationship with the girl in question but to abrogate it. And it is about time that you became enticed by your love for the Real Beloved — Baba — which is the true search for a genuine aspirant."