Some found it a dull performance, except for the privilege of being near Baba. It was cold in the theatre, and Dr. Hayman put his coat about Baba's shoulders. Baba looked very tired. At the intermission, He left with the mandali and returned to the hotel. Quite a number of us followed His example and left the theatre to retire early that evening. It had been a long, exhausting but spiritually exhilarating day.

Sunday, July 22

When we arrived at the Hotel Delmonico Sunday morning, we found we had been given a smaller reception room, bare and icy from the air-conditioning, so we all pitched in to make it worthy of Baba in some small way with flowers, green branches and, of course, a bowl of fruit for "prasad."

At 9 a.m. crowds of people had already begun to collect in the ante-room, waiting patiently while Baba was delayed upstairs by an interview with an Indian TV news service. Then the TV cameramen came down and began to set up lights in the reception room, to photograph American devotees approaching the Master; for as Dr. Krishnaya  said, "It will be real news in India that an Indian Spiritual Master has so many devotees in America."

At about 10:30 Baba came down and was photographed as three Spanish sisters approached Him, a young Negro boy, and a tall Irishman. Baba embraced each one and gave each a grape. Then He was filmed tossing grapes into the crowd seated about Him, who caught the "prasad" with delight as usual. Afterwards, due to the lateness of the hour, the interviews were speeded up by Baba, who nevertheless, with His divine sense of timing, gave each soul His full attention. Several Indians met Baba, including a tall Sikh who had lived next door to Baba in India, but who had never met HiM as He was then in seclusion. He was overjoyed to meet Baba in America at last! Another person asked Baba (having read "Bridey Murphy," perhaps) if it were possible to recall past incarnations under hypnosis and Baba said in rare cases it was possible but very dangerous.

Directly after lunch, Baba had all those present come in for a group "sahavas" meeting. Don Stevens rose and read "The Real Gift," in which Baba explains how we should regard giving, and says that when God bestows the real gift of His Love, He manifests His complete forgetfulness of it by apparently becoming callous towards His lovers. Don then read a second message, "The Eternal Now," in which Baba tells us that by being