I want everyone of you to pour out your hearts and decide once and for all either to work or to stop the work.

"My dear friends, if you want to make people love me, show them that you really love me. Don't merely make them read my books and messages; but you live such a life of sacrifice that others may automatically love me."

When one of the workers asked "Without money how is propaganda possible?" Baba continued:

"I have not understood what work you are doing for me. I am seriously saying this and I ask all the workers the same.

If instead of doing the real work, you have been doing propaganda for me, it is absurd. I do not want propaganda or publicity. I want love and honesty. If you cannot show that, you all stop working. I am quite capable of doing my Universal Work all alone. The very words—propaganda and publicity—look me down. 'Baba's' work needs no money. My work has been done ages ago without money. When money came into vogue, it was absolutely for money that Judas sold me.

"Of course, it is but natural for those workers who are poor to think that they must have money for 'Baba's' work, for spreading far and wide the Message of Love. But from my point of view, to depend on money for 'Baba's' work and to extract money by hook or crook is absolutely dishonest.

Now I will tell you about money and what I think about it. From the day I kept silence, I have stopped touching money and have also stopped writing till today. And you have no idea how much money has flowed through my hands. You do not know. And yet I have no money. I am a 'Fakir.' But money comes and goes. If you depend on money for my work, then do not work for me, because how will you get money? Let us be very practical."

One of the chief workers answers, "I feel it is the life that we lead . . ."

Baba continued: "Very good. Live such a life that you show others that you love me. But to ask people to give money and then in return to propagate 'Baba's' Message of Love does sound absurd. I therefore wish that the committee of K. D. R. M. (the four chief workers appointed by me as the four pillars in Andhra for my work) should now stop what they call work, and each of them begin to live and let other workers follow suit, too, so that