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no doubt to make her rest, but as someone remarked, "she is about as vocal without speaking as with it." However, her health improved daily and she was able to come over to the women's bungalow a few minutes a day and walk up to the second floor.

 

Baba has some very endearing ways when one is ill. He may not come over to see you daily, but he will send along special messages through one of the group. For instance, these he sent to Norina at this time:

 

1.   "Don't worry about anything, not even work."

 

2.   "Do not mind one per cent if you do not sleep for seven days."

 

3.   "Walk, talk, go for drives, but do not strain, do not lift weights and do not jump."

 

4.   "Do not worry if you feel miserable, if you are out of breath."

 

5.   "Be indifferent to every symptom and to everything."

 

6.   "You can see me, be near me, but do not talk to me."

 

7.   "Do not hesitate to call on Goher any hour during the night should you need anything."

 

8.   "Eat well, sleep well and don't think about anything. Baba will see you and Elizabeth in the

  morning. During these seven days before Baba's fast, he will be with you both most of the        time to talk and discuss." (Baba was on fast from July 20 to July 30).

 

  I will read you Norina's letter written at this time to a friend in New York:

 

 

—Satara, July 21, 1947

"Dear—:

 

"I am working and resting and feeling life as benediction and seeing, knowing and feeling the presence of this God-manifesting heart, this human man's manifestation of joy and true love—Baba, like the seed in the earth, senses the ray of the good sun! It’s too infinite in selfless donation of good to be able to describe it.

 

"I am here as I would be anywhere attending his order. He leads the heartbeat, the selfless cry to be his own, the self's pain and joy is dissolved in his being that can what no other self can. We are transmuted in joy and love, we are redeemed with no one's care but his grace. I feel the cure of his light doing miraculous benefit.

 

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