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Chapter 40: Age Weeps Again

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(9) No visitors should come to Meherazad for darshan or for meeting the mandali.
(10) Only those who are directly connected with Meherazad work may visit when absolutely necessary any day AFTER 11:00 A.M. Waman should visit every Sunday at 11:00 A.M., without fail.
(11) Sarosh and Viloo are to write information about the selected motion pictures for showing in Ahmednagar, and Baba will send the women mandali to Ahmednagar accordingly for: The Sound of Music, Lawrence of Arabia, Dr. Zhivago, and My Fair Lady. Viloo should arrange to take the women to these pictures.
(12) Adi can visit Meherazad for work after 11:00 A.M.
(13) None of the mandali should go outside of Meherazad till November end, unless it is absolutely necessary for work, as in the case of Rano or Goher or Baidul, who are permitted to go to Ahmednagar and Baidul to Bombay.
(14) Not to convey any cause for Baba to get upset or angry.
(15) The month of October 1967 will be very crucial for Baba.
(16) When the date of "Filming Meher Baba" is fixed, preferably on a Sunday by Adi, Louis van Gasteren, Ezra Mir, Jagat Murari and Jalbhai, Baba will step out of his seclusion for that one day for three hours only and hold a program of washing the feet of lepers who are to be brought with the help of Sarosh, Adi, Chhagan, Bhagirath and the Nagar Center.
(17) Chhagan is to bring Baba's food to Meherazad [once] every fortnight after 11:00 A.M.
(18) For the purpose of "entertainments" on Sundays, Baba will send for singers from the Ahmednagar Center, or Poona, or Bombay on his own, and NONE must make any suggestions about these programs.
(19) In short, Baba wants no disturbance of any kind till November 21, 1967.
From Friday, 21 July 1967, Baba began his "serious" seclusion work with Kaikobad inside mandali hall for three hours every morning. The doors and windows were kept tightly shut, and not the slightest sound was permitted — so much so that even the birds were gently driven away so their chirping might not disturb Baba. Inside the hall, Kaikobad would stand on a stool and continuously repeat the seven names of God (Ya Yezdan, Ahuramazda, Allah, Ishwar, Paramatma, God Almighty, Parvardigar). With his every repetition of the names, Baba would bend down and touch Kaikobad's feet. This went on hundreds of times. Bhau was on guard outside, and complete silence reigned in Meherazad during this work of Baba's.
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