Baba remained very busy from now on. Once or twice he came from Meherabad to Pimpalgaon, and he would ask us beforehand to prepare some sort of entertainment. In this way we were engrossed in doing something for Baba and not engrossed in bemoaning the fact that we had been left in Meherabad whilst others had gone with Baba to the new ashram at Pimpalgaon. Baba knew quite well how we suffered from the separation after being with him for so long.

It is one thing to know Baba dislikes depressed or despondent spirits, long faces, dramatic poses or expressions of misery or unhappiness, but the control of such moods is not easy. Baba gives us the positive side and shows such pleasure if we remember that he likes us to love him with a cheerful disposition, a dancing heart full of hope, spiritual vigor, and prepared physically and mentally to enjoy his presence. He did not want us to brood over the separation, or upon the circular of January, 1949, quoted above.

So we prepared short amusing episodes. I recall a boxing match between Rano and myself — the thin lanky one and the short plump one. Elizabeth reminds me I played the part so vigorously that my opponent left the ring limping!!

Another time the younger members of the group performed two skits in English which they were studying. Dawlat, a young Persian girl, daughter of Baidul, did a monologue, "Buying a Hat." In the middle she stopped, told Baba that she had forgotten the next word but that she would remember. We waited whilst she stood before the mirror with the hat on and sure enough, the missing word turned up! Baba quite enjoyed the little "slips" that went with our efforts toward a perfect performance.

Between March and May, 1949, Baba was on mast tours with his head-quarters in Mt. Abu, Rajasthan. Three weeks after Baba descended from