As mentioned, from 16 August 1966, Baba prohibited any further visitors to Meherazad.
He again repeated: "Unless and until I, on my own, send for anyone, NONE should visit me or ask to visit me before the end of 1967."
This instruction was conveyed to all concerned and strictly enforced and followed.
At one point, Baba remarked, "Even if God Himself comes to the gate, do not let him enter!"
On the 17th, Adi received a telephone call from Aloba at the Pimpalgaon pumping station to say that Baba urgently wanted Adi to send Coca-Cola and ginger soda bottles. Fortunately, Padri was going to Meherazad that day and took the crates.
One outward reason for Baba's tighter seclusion was his poor health and cervical pain, about which he revealed, "The cause of it is the growing weight of my work — the bearing of the world's pain."
Baba was not feeling well on 21 August, and Don was called to bring certain medicines for him that day and the next. Moorty and his family had come to Ahmednagar at this time. Although they went to Meherazad on the 22nd, Baba did not see them.
Yet the more Baba withdrew from outward activity, the more intensified activity surrounding his name became evident throughout the world. As Mani wrote: "The more the veil of seclusion hides him from the eyes of his lovers, the more he is revealed in the hearts of those unaware of him."
In America, England and Australia especially there was much "Baba-activity," and it was marvelous how more and more young people were being drawn into the God-Man's love orbit.
Baba smiled one day and commented in a matter-of-fact manner, "It is because I am God."
Baba always remembered to send a telegram to Kitty for her birthday. That year, on 27 August, he cabled:
Your love for me, which is your life, speaks my message to all who come to my Center and makes me happy. Keep well and remember you are very dear to me Kitty.