But gradually, as each of the mandali began to understand things more clearly, these festival days were ignored. During these early years, however, Baba would explain to the mandali the significance of their holidays and thus gave them a real understanding of their true spiritual meaning. Only after basking in the wine of love did all come to know that love is the only real religion, whose practice consists in remaining bowed at Baba's feet.
On one occasion, reflecting on his sense of humor, Baba related:
Ajoba is very old. He has a family and children, and is spending his sanskaras in this life. Suppose in his next birth he reincarnates as a female child. (God forbid!) I see this old man now and I also see him as he will be in his next birth — and that makes me laugh! Am I not justified in being humorous? Everything I see, I see as a dream! But in spite of that, I feel bothered about it all because I have to work for others to make them see it as a dream.
Upasni Maharaj was a woman in his previous birth and he will never take birth again. God-realization is usually obtained while living in human form as with the human form comes authority. But there is a special authority that comes with the male human form. A Perfect Master has a circle of twelve men and two female appendages. Of the fourteen people, all the members of the circle are males, except the two women who play the roles of spiritual mother and sister.
Babajan is a Qutub, one of the five Sadgurus of this age. From the 56 God-realized people, one woman becomes a Perfect Master and another is also perfect [a Jivanmukta or majzoob]. That woman is presently in Tibet. She has a group of disciples, but usually stays in the mountains and very, very few ever see her. The remaining 54 God-realized beings are men. The number of God-realized souls on Earth is eternally fixed at 56 and is never altered [except during Avataric ages when God directly descends as a man].
On 22 June 1926, Baba revealed:
A Sadguru is like an ocean, a limitless stretch of water. Empty your mind of all mayavic desires and the waters of the ocean will find a way in — the waters of Knowledge, Power and Bliss.
The Jivanmuktas, majzoobs and other spiritual beings in the hierarchy are the pipelines for the waters of Realization.