Meanwhile, the war between India and Pakistan had not yet come to an end and was a subject of daily discussion in Guruprasad. Aloba, being both a Zoroastrian and a Muslim, would gaze heavenward and utter, "Ya, Baba, save Pakistan!"
Hearing him, Baba asked him, "Why do you pray like this?"
Aloba replied, "I can't explain it; the prayer just comes out of my mouth!"
Baba scolded him, "Look at this man! He lives in India, every day he eats food from India — still he prays for Pakistan!"
On Sunday morning, 23 May 1965, at ten o'clock, Baba stated this about the current crisis:
"The present warlike activities will be followed by temporary peace. But after two and a half years — by the end of November 1967 — there will be the war that will destroy three-fourths of the world. India will be desolated. All countries will suffer untold disaster, but America will survive a little more than the rest of the world. I will then break my silence, after which there will be my Universal Manifestation and the world will come to know Who I am. One year after the breaking of my silence, I will drop my body."
Later, that afternoon at four o'clock, Baba said:
"I am God in human form. When I break my silence the world will come to know that I am the Avatar of the Age. For a short duration there will be increased warlike activities followed by temporary peace. By the end of November 1967, there will be the war that the world has never before witnessed.
"These are absolute facts, but are not to be published unless and until I order you to do so. This restriction is in order to avoid the headache of answering queries that will naturally arise from the premature announcement of these facts."
Meanwhile, Robert Antoni of Paris, France, suffered a serious car accident in May 1965, and the severe shock caused him to have a nervous breakdown. His condition became so severe that his wife, Yvonne, worried that he might commit suicide, and cabled her concern to Baba. Baba sent this reply to her:
I send my love to my dear children Yvonne and Robert. Tell Robert that he should never think of escaping. Far from being an escape, suicide is on the contrary a terrible binding. He has to face everything with the strength of Baba's love and remember me constantly.