Baba concluded, "Now is the time for all to understand that I am God in human form."
This was sent as a message for his lovers throughout the world.
On 27 November 1966, Baba permitted food to be sent to Meherazad for him and the mandali, courtesy of Perviz Talati, who was getting married that day in Bombay to Shridhar Kelkar. Eruch wrote to a devotee on 5 December: "Beloved Baba is better in mood and in health since a week now." On the 12th Rick Chapman's article about LSD was read to Baba and returned to Rick, with a note that Rick should go back to America, as scheduled, without expecting to see Baba again.
Baba had once stated: "Words that proceed from the Source of Truth have real meaning ..."1
And direct from the Source came the following words for his lovers, through Mani's Family Letter of 14 December 1966:
Desires and longings are the root cause of all suffering. The only Real Desire is to see God, and the only Real Longing is to become one with God. This Real Desire and Longing frees one from the bondage of birth and death. Other desires and longings bind one with ignorance.
To desire the Real Desire and to long for the Real Longing you need my grace, and you cannot have that until you surrender all other desires and longings to me.
Your love for me will help you to surrender these desires and longings, and my love for you will help you to desire the Real Desire and long for the Real Longing, which are by my grace.
Every day, from some corner of the world, letters and telegrams were received about a tragic misfortune or cry in distress for Baba's help and intervention. Listening to all these, Baba would invariably send this message in reply:
The remedy for all ills is only this — to remember me constantly and wholeheartedly.
On another occasion, Baba said: "You will come to remember me wholeheartedly as you remember yourself less and less."
Mehera's birthday was celebrated privately at Meherazad on Thursday, 22 December 1966 with a special meal prepared and sent by Chhagan and Viloo. Every year a few close ones were invited on that day, such as Nariman and Arnavaz Dadachanji, Jim and Roda Mistry, Nargis and Khorshed from Bombay, along with Gaimai and Manu Jessawala from Poona. On the women's side, Baba would embrace Mehera, and the ladies would sing Happy Birthday to her.
Footnotes
- 1.From the conclusion of The Everything and the Nothing, first published in Australia in 1962. The full quote is: "Words that proceed from the Source of Truth have real meaning, but when men take these words as their own the words become meaningless."