Baba stated, "No one is allowed to stay here anymore, but you can stay in Ahmednagar with Sarosh and Viloo. You are all very fortunate to be able to see me, as I am in strict seclusion."
Looking at Viloo, he continued, "Viloo loves me. I sent her to the north last year as my representative at the Hamirpur fair, and this year, I am sending her to the south for the opening of one of my centers there [in Andhra]."
Baba asked them whether they would like private interviews, and all three women said that they would.
Baba asked Janice Camm, "Would you come back next December for the sahavas program?"
Janice was noncommittal.
He asked Cynthia Adams the same thing. "You bet!" she replied, which seemed to amuse Francis.
Baba turned to Phyllis Ott and asked, "How is Lyn?"
Lyn had been in the hospital only a few weeks before, due to a bleeding ulcer, and although he was recovering when Phyllis left for India, she replied, "I don't know how he is, but I hope he is well."
"Why didn't you bring Lyn with you?"
"I can't bring him, Baba. He has to come on his own volition."
"Why didn't he come to see me?"
Phyllis was about to reply, "Am I my brother's keeper?" but her thought was intercepted and she replied, "Lyn obeys."
For a while, Baba conversed again with the others before asking, "And you, Phyllis, you do not obey?"
She said, "I do obey, but Baba doesn't."
Baba received this with great pleasure, putting his thumb and forefinger together in a circular gesture of perfection. Later, Phyllis realized that what she meant was that when we belong exclusively to Baba, everything we do is really done by him.
Lyn Ott was suffering from retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative disease of the retina that caused him to have tunnel vision.
Baba asked, "How are Lyn's eyes? Does he see?"
Phyllis said, "Lyn sees a lot, but not enough to make it very practical for him to work or walk by himself."
"Can he see my face?" Baba asked.
"It would be difficult to say how Lyn would see your face."
"Tell Lyn to come to me. I will show him my face as it really is. This I reveal to very few."
Phyllis said, "It would be difficult for Lyn to make the trip alone from the United States to India. There are so many changes from bus to plane and plane stops en route, and then from the plane to a train from Bombay to come here."