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Chapter 40: Age Weeps Again

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The draft was sent to Adi's office for typing and printing. After it was dispatched, many telegrams and letters began arriving, and Baba would dictate replies. He would often bring up the subject of "the Great Darshan" to be held next summer.
One day he punned, "In March, you all march to Poona."
On one occasion, Eruch pleaded, "Baba, why not just let there be darshan every day? There will not be that mad rush or circumstances which are so oppressive for us all, and naturally it will not be as tiresome for you. When thousands come, the mothers have to stand in the queue for hours in the hot sun holding small babies and fruits that get spoiled by the time they reach you. And all the time, you will be concerned about where will they stay at night, how will they pass the night, how will they return home, will they get seats on the train. Why all this?
"Why not give darshan every day? We will fix the time each day when darshan will be available, and we will not need to bother about their lodging. Let them come every day. It will be so much easier," Eruch concluded.
Baba replied, "That time will also come. Not now though, but after we come back from Poona. There will be darshan every day, but only after we return."
Mani was in the hall, and after hearing this exchange, she envisioned an entirely new set of circulars announcing "Darshan every day," and later another one canceling it for reasons of Baba's health. She tried to stall any sudden announcements by interjecting, "Baba, why not wait and see how you feel. You can decide then."
Baba listened and gently repeated, "Every day. Every day. When I come from Poona there will be darshan every day."
On another occasion at this time, Baba on his own remarked, "There will come a time when your love will bring me to your own house — your own room. There will come a time when I will be seeing my lovers not at one place, but at thousands of places at one time. It is your love that can make it possible."
In response to an inquiry from Irwin and Edward Luck, on 15 October 1968, Baba through Adi sent this message to them on a post card: "Baba wants you both to know that he has no more directions to give you except that you love him more and more with pure love."
As events transpired, this turned out to be Baba's last communication to the Luck brothers.
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