enslaved to the temporary conditions of life, we deprive ourselves of the eternal and lasting. He said it is better to stake everything on God and live in the Eternal Now, than to make fruitless surveys of the past, or have illusive longings for the future.

There were over one hundred people crowded into the little room and Baba seemed restless to give us His still more personal "sahavas," or contact, and had Eruch announce that the different small groups should come up to His room "by sevens." He then went upstairs. While the others waited in the corridor outside Baba's room, seven people at a time from the Monday Night Group, the Schenectady Group, the Sufi Group, Margaret Craske's group of young dancers, and a little group from Arizona, went in to see the Master. Each one thus had a chance to be face to face with Baba and receive His personal attention or ask Him any questions. Baba was loving, playful, teasing and solicitous by turns, ever-knowing the inmost problems and unspoken thoughts of those who love Him. As He said to a family from Schenectady:

"I'm very, very happy when I am with My lovers. I feel very happy. When do the people of the world feel happy? When they have an appetite and enjoy a good dinner. After they have enjoyed it, they feel a sort of satisfaction and happiness. It is a pleasure to eat when hungry. What is My appetite? My appetite is satisfied only when I meet My dear lovers . . . when I see your love, I am satisfied. That is My food."

To a few from the Monday Night Group He said:

"All this world is nothing, an illusion. I am in everything. I tell you with My authority, I am in everything. Love Me, and that way, when you drop your bodies, then you are with Me eternally."

To some of the Sufi Group, Baba dictated:

"I have said many times, I am the Lord of Love and at the same time I am the slave of My lovers. This is not idle talk, it is a fact. I am the Lord of Love and the slave of My lovers."

Eruch continued: "Baba says when He goes out to contact masts in India, the God of Love meets the God-intoxicated. About 70 miles from Satara, there is one mast called Dhondi Bua. Baba likes him very much. He is very healthy, he doesn't wear anything, he doesn't beg for food or anything. He doesn't ask for anything, or want anything. Even if you want to give him something, he will not take it. Although he does not wear