"When will I be really hungry for it?"
"When you love me as I should be loved. "
"How can I love you like that?"
"By remembering me all the time, with all your heart."
"By what name should I remember you?"
"Say, 'Baba, Baba, Baba ...' "
Shireen was quite receptive to all that Baba revealed to her. During her talk with him, she seemed oblivious of the others sitting in the room. After some time, when Baba asked her what she was thinking about, she gazed sweetly at Baba and just opened and closed her lips, uttering in a low, sweet voice, "Ba ... Ba."
When she was having lunch with Baba and the women mandali, she suddenly piped up, "I wish I had a magic wand!" One of the women asked her what she would do with a magic wand, and she replied, "I would wish for what I want."
"And what would you want to wish for?" another asked.
"To see Baba with the Light around him!"
In England, Shireen had had little occasion to hear of snakes and scorpions, but in India when she was warned about looking out for them, she felt frightened and disgusted. During one of her visits to Meherazad, she asked Baba about them: "Why did God create snakes and scorpions — creepy-crawly things like that?"
Baba smiled and pointed to Eruch for an answer. Eruch said, "God has created such things so that in our fear we may call out to Him and remember Him."
Shireen was not satisfied and retorted, "But God is all-powerful, so He can make us remember Him directly instead of through nasty, horrible things like snakes and scorpions. Was there any mistake on God's part in creating them?"
Such innocent, but equally deep questions startled those present.
Baba appeared pleased and happy, and explained to her, "Good and bad, beautiful and ugly, are all mine. They are me. It was not a mistake on the part of God when He created snakes and scorpions. It is all as it should be."
"But why did God have to create such creatures?" she insisted.
Baba explained, "You Shireen, are so pretty and sweet, and yet every day when you sit on the potty you bring out what is dirty and smelly. Why do you do it? Because it is necessary, and it helps to keep you well and pretty. And so are all things in God's creation necessary. Both good and bad, beautiful and ugly, are mine."