A photograph was taken of Baba with the mandali, then another with all who had come and a third of Baba alone. After lunch, Baba took all to Kaka Shahane's for tea, where he gave a discourse. Later in the afternoon, Pyaroo Qawaal arrived and sang at the hospital for three hours until 6:30 P.M. He stayed at Meherabad for a few days and gave several performances. Before he left, in appreciation of his efforts, Baba presented him and his tabla player with silk handkerchiefs.
Another group who sang bhajans was one who had sung for Baba at Manzil-e-Meem. They had been to Akolner for a performance and heard that Meher Baba was now residing in the vicinity.
During this period, in addition to the Circle Committee, a School Committee was established, the majority of the members being the students themselves. Proposals for improving the school were regularly forwarded from this committee to the Circle Committee for review.
At Shahane's residence, the Family Quarters, on 25 March, Baba gave the following discourse on intelligence:
Intelligence when it is not thinking is unconsciousness and may be likened to sound sleep. Thinking and imagination are latent in intelligence. When intelligence thinks of Itself, it realizes its Self and is God. When it thinks about imagination, it is the world, mind, body, and ignorance.
For example, take a gramophone record. When it is not being played, it is in a state similar to sound sleep, like unconscious intelligence (when it is not thinking); but when the phonograph needle is put on the record, it starts to play. This is like the thinking of imagination that is latent in intelligence and becomes manifest while the mind is thinking.
Take as another example an ocean to represent intelligence, which is calm at first. But when the wind blows (the desire of intelligence to know Itself), there is movement in the still waters (intelligence begins to think), forming innumerable waves, and the result is an uncountable number of bubbles. When intelligence starts thinking, it creates waves (universes), which form bubbles (different worlds).
The ocean (intelligence) is there in the bubbles (imagination), but in a limited form. So when we think, intelligence is there, but in a limited form. It knows that "I am this body."
Baba then put some water in a big pot and turned a cup upside down in it. He continued:
Although the same water is in the cup as in the pot, its quantity is limited.