(4) "My lovers and workers should earn their livelihoods as honestly as the times and conditions permit, and they must never contribute to my cause money that has not been earned according to the deepest level of their moral sense and judgment."
(5) "I want all my lovers to continue reciting the Parvardigar Prayer and the Prayer of Repentance every day until the 9th of July 1968. On the 10th of July, the 43rd anniversary of my silence, I want all my lovers to observe complete silence for 24 hours, from midnight of 9 July to midnight of 10 July 1968."
Please note that Baba has given no option of a fast for those who may find it impractical to observe silence. None must write for further clarification concerning it.
Moreover, Baba desires the present restriction on correspondence to continue as now and be more strictly observed. The "more strictly" applies mainly to those who have been increasingly forgetful of the restriction and have lapsed into pre-restriction letter writing.
Kindly circulate early the above messages of Avatar Meher Baba to all concerned in your sphere of work.
Baba's health was on the whole better in Poona, despite the familiar fluctuations. One day he would look so well and radiant, moving so swiftly that the mandali had a hard time keeping up with his gestures. The very next day he would look weighed down and tired.
Baba explained: "These ups and downs in my physical health are caused by the shifting pressures of my Universal work."
When lovers managed to breach the wall of his seclusion and requested darshan, Baba would state: "Be patient. Wait in my love. Those who wait for me never wait in vain. You will see me, but wait until I call. Hold on to my daaman — and wait for my call."
From midnight of 18 May 1968, all concerned observed silence for 24 hours as Baba had instructed. The mandali in Guruprasad did likewise.
Tuesday, 21 May, marked both an end and a beginning. It was the end of the interminable seclusion — when Baba secluded himself from seeing his lovers. And it was a beginning of a period referred to as "exclusion" — when his lovers were excluded from seeing him.