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Chapter 40: Age Weeps Again

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One day I am going to explain to Francis why people in India say "Radha-Krishna" and not "Krishna-Radha," and "Sita-Ram" and not "Ram-Sita."
Mehera's love for me is 100 percent pure. It is not like others who love Baba. All these years she has been with me, and has been as pure as anything. She has no lustful thoughts or desires — not even for her "Krishna" [Baba]. Nothing at all. Her sole purpose in life is to love me. All this I will explain to Francis.
At this point, Baba reprimanded Adi for bringing outsiders with him to Meherazad when he was called for work, and when he managed to get them to leave his office for telling them to take a chance by going on their own to Meherazad, if they happened to be traveling that way.
Baba added, "Adi's behavior frightens me!"
Baba again emphasized to Adi to firmly discourage anyone from coming to Meherazad, impressing on him or her not to go there at any time. Baba might call someone or a few of the mandali from Meherabad for work, but that was different. He was quite decisive about any unwanted visitor coming to Meherazad.
Baba then left the hall, and immediately afterwards, both the guests and resident mandali were called to the back of the compound, where Baba was seated on the verandah of his house with Mehera standing at his side. Most of them were seeing her for the first time and marveled at the purity of her love for Baba. They wished her "Jai Baba!" and she shyly repeated the same in reply. The group from Ahmednagar mingled in the compound with the mandali for a while and then departed.
Meherwan Jessawala had come for the meeting from Poona, and stayed on at Meherazad, on his annual one-month visit.
After the meeting, Baba outlined the schedule for his seclusion work for the next six weeks:
9–19 February 1968 daily: — one and a half hours in the morning — a half hour in the afternoon — a quarter hour in his room
20 February 1968: — three hours in the morning — half hour in the afternoon — a quarter hour in his room
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