THE GOD-MAN The Life, Journeys and Work of Meher Baba with an ...

226 THE GOD-MAN"Today I have three points that I wish to convey to you. The first is that I want you to be completelynatural and absolutely frank. If the food does not agree with you, say so. If there is anything you don't like,say so. If your health is not good, say so. Sarosh and Villoo are in charge here. Tell them. If they canpossibly change it, they will do so. If they can't change it, they will say 'yes', and that will be that."Don is in charge of your health. If you have any difficulty of any kind, tell him. You must take care tokeep yourselves in good health, because the meetings on the 29th and 30th will be very important, and youmust be in good shape to absorb everything."The second point: while you are here, from now until you leave, I want you to forget everything aboutEurope, America, and Australia, and think only of Baba and what you are experiencing here. If you hadbut a glimpse of what I really am, you would forget yourselves completely and be conscious only of God.So, while you are here be conscious only of what you experience here."The third point: these meetings on the 29th and 30th are the last meetings I shall hold before I give upthe body. There will be about a thousand present, from all over India and Pakistan - all workers for Baba.Everything I say will be spontaneous, and someone should take down every word, because there will beonly one prepared text, but all will be vitally important. I shall tell you why I am here, what I have done,what I shall still do, and what will happen in seven hundred years. After all, you have come a greatdistance to attend these meetings, and I want you to receive as much as you possibly can from them. Whenthey are over, I want you to go home as quickly and directly as possible, so that you can carry with you,still fresh, what you have received."Baba then told us to get sun-hats and come with him. He led us to the tomb that he had had built forhimself by the mandali with some help; the tomb is not a choice architectural work, but notable for itssimplicity. It is of whitened concrete, with an open crypt in the centre, where Baba had spent weeks offasting and seclusion; on the walls are murals painted by Helen Dahm of Switzerland. Then he showed usthe tombs of his mother and father, Nonny Gayley, and Nadine Tolstoy, stopping on the way to point outthe hut where he had shut himself up years ago for months, not seeing anyone, only communicating withone of the mandali through a small slit in the wall. From there he led down the hill at a brisk pace to themen's ashram, stopping once to ask if he were walking too fast, and resuming at a slower pace. At the foot