Baba put his hands together and then pulled them apart, replying, "They will not come together."
He further remarked, "While there are many people in the Chinese communist government who are not good, Mao Tse-tung, himself, has a very good heart and is truly an idealist. Many of those around him, however, are of a very different caliber."
Baba rhymed, "Mao-chow ... Chow-Mao!"
Eruch explained that Baba meant that Mao Tse-tung would gobble up places (or perhaps people) and, in turn, he would be gobbled up.
"It is a good plan," Baba commented.
He went on to state, "Although Mao is a very good man, Stalin, on the other hand, had a very bad heart and did enormous harm in the world."1 Baba added: "Russia has tremendous potential for evil, for wrongdoing in the world."
Don Stevens discussed some questions about various subjects in God Speaks which the Sufis and others had been asking, and Baba promised to elucidate these for the second edition.
Baba also stated, "I will not break my silence and manifest until this new edition of God Speaks is published."2
When Don Stevens was sitting in Eruch's room, Mani came and said, "Don, I am glad you are here because Baba had us put away a present for you." She walked off and came back a few minutes later bearing a manila envelope. "Open it," she said. Inside was a well-used, patched sadra.
Mani told Don, "The evening of January 14 [1965] when Baba was going to bed, he removed this sadra and gave it to Mehera, indicating, 'Save this for Don, and give it to him next time he comes.' "
In the hall, after greeting Baba, Don said, "Baba, I received your sadra and I can't tell you how touched I am. I want to thank you for it."
Don recalled: "Baba looked very pleased as I started talking, but by the time I had finished, he looked very much less pleased."
Toward the end of his stay, Don Stevens again was so overwhelmed by Baba's usual love and kindness, that he brought up the sadra as one of the final subjects with Baba, by thanking him a second time. "Baba, I want to thank you again for the lovely sadra," he said, "and the wonderful love that you sent with it."
Baba looked very angry but said nothing. After he had bid Don Stevens farewell and left the hall, Don said to Eruch, "Was it my imagination or was Baba angry with me when I thanked him for the sadra?"
Footnotes
- 1.China's most powerful revolutionary figure, Mao Tse-tung (1893–1976), was founder of the People's Republic of China. During Joseph Stalin's (1879–1953) tenure as head of the Russian government, Stalin ordered a series of executions and imprisonments. The exact number of people executed is not known; estimates range from thousands to millions.
- 2.The first edition of God Speaks was reprinted in 1967, and the revised and expanded second edition was published in 1973.