Baba demonstrated this to the group by hammering his right thigh several times, and they heard a loud thud each time.
With this exertion for hours on end, I was physically exhausted, and it took me the rest of the day to regain my strength to start work afresh the next day.
Now, although my health is good and I would like to fulfill immediately the longing of my lovers to come to me — many of whom will see me for the first time — it will yet take some time for all traces of the strain to disappear and for me to be 100 percent fit to see them all. And so, because of this and for practical considerations also, I have decided to give my darshan only to my lovers and not to the general public.
This is the time for my lovers. The time for the world's crowds to come to me will be when I break my silence and manifest my divinity.
The 1962 East-West Gathering was nothing compared with what this gathering will be. This is because, while I was working intensely in seclusion, my worker-lovers all over the world were intensely active telling the world about me, and my message is spreading in many parts of the West now — like a forest fire before a strong wind — as it had already done in many areas of India.
I will give my darshan daily for two hours in the morning and for two hours in the afternoon to small numbers up to 500 people at a time; but I will not see any of my lovers individually or give private interviews, because it would not be possible. This is my part of the bargain. How the lovers come to Poona and are accommodated will be the concern of each one who comes.
Baba then praised the work done by certain of his lovers in India. Amar Singh was the first to be singled out.
Amar Singh loves me intensely. He has firm faith in my Godhood. He tells many others that Baba is the Avatar. He contacts the rich and poor, the literate and the illiterate, even cabinet ministers, and tells all of them that Baba is God in human form.
In Bombay, Gajwani and Siganporia also say the same thing to people. The work of lovers from Poona is 100 percent satisfactory. Formerly, Soman was lukewarm in my love, but now he is on fire!