In the same way, you all have the false belief that the world is real. You cannot digest this truth, this fact, when I tell you that everything is false — a dream, an illusion. But just have faith in me. Listen to me, love me, and one day you will have the awareness that God alone is the Reality; He is the Truth, and everything else is illusion.
On 29 December, Baba mentioned the death of Kondiram (one of the early Kasba Peth mandali) and also discoursed about the Avatar:
The Avatar can do all that a Sadguru does. He has and prepares a circle as a Sadguru does, but he does one special thing also. The Avatar can make a person who is not even in the circle, or 'turned' to God [meaning on the planes], a God-realized Salik with special duty.
If I get the whim, I may make a few selected boys of the ashram God-realized at once and again bring them back for special duty. But for that the time must come — and also the whim. Krishna was the Avatar and he realized and brought down seventeen persons who were outside his circle; these seventeen were extra God-realized Saliks.
Let me see who now gets the apple! It all depends on love. So leave all this crying about separation and do only one thing — love me. Then I will do something special for not only seventeen, but for many — as many as I like. I have that power. There is no doubt as to that. So create and increase love. And what is the meaning of love? It means but one thing — thinking of me and nothing else.
The next morning, Kaikobad Dastur visited again from Navsari. Kaikobad tried to make an offering of Rs.51, but was told no monetary offering would be accepted. Sweets, however, would be, and Kaikobad brought some when he returned five days later. Sailor and Sadashiv arrived on the 31st.
On the evening of 30 December, Baba revealed to the mandali:
My wish at this time is advancing boys and turning them into saliks. I am mostly concerned with boys, and that is why all this trouble [the ashram school]. You will see how many of these boys will be saints! The time is very near. And after this work is finished, I will manifest. But the whim must come and it is very difficult for it to come.