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

THE UNIVERSAL MESSAGE 367In the afternoon Easterners and Westerners met again at 2 p.rn. There was no rain, although the windwas in the S.E. and there was much cloud. After announcements, there was bhajan by a company ofsingers from Poona, and the approach to Baba by those who had not already taken part was continued.Despite the large crowd of people and their anxiety to come to Baba, complete order was maintainedthroughout the afternoon until 6 0' clock. As before the Western visitors sat during the entire period. Theaffair ended with the arti without the ceremony.As there were still many Eastern visitors to come to Baba he went to the pandal at 6 a.m. the nextmorning, Saturday, at 8.30 a.m., before meeting the Westerners. He had fisherfolk from the village ofChirale near Bombay who had been sitting on the front porch brought in and asked them to sing. Whatthey sang, translated by Eruch, was:I bow to you in your infinite aspects; infinite Bliss, infinite Knowledge, and infinite Power are in thishuman form of yours. You are my real father and mother. I long for that day when I become one with you.They received a prasad of sweets and after embracing Baba left for home. The Westerners gatheredwhile this was taking place, when he greeted them. On this occasion there was singing by one of India'sforemost classical singers who had come especially from Calcutta, Vinayakrao Patwardhan, which wasreceived with pleasure by Baba. Afterwards he made enquiries about people who were sick and had someof them brought to the gathering. He said:"In 1963 I shall see no one and will have no correspondence."I shall then prepare for the urge to break my silence. I want to finish my universal work." He added aftera reference to the disturbed state of the country:"Instead of blood, let the love of God flow."He resumed with the Easterners at 1 p.m., and at 3 p.m. a message to 'My Dear Workers' was read inEnglish by Darwin Shaw, followed by versions in three languages. In the course of it Baba said:"In spite of telling you that I will not give any more messages or discourses, I find myself doing just thisthing which is what I do not want to do. This is because most of you do things which I do not like youdoing.