"All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged. What is meant by God-Realization is to actually experience this important thing—that the soul is eternal.

"I would so much like you all to live a simple life in India, then resume your habitual life in the West and not to be affected by either. However, I do not make you sleep on the floor now. Why do I arrange all these comforts for you? Because it would affect the body and react on the mind and make it difficult for me to impart truth through the mind. Drastic changes would have reactions on the mind and body. Gradually I will withdraw comforts from you, then again return them to you. The world is a slave to needs. The needs must be your slaves. I don't want you to give up your needs but I want you to be free from them. So, in the beginning you might feel confused, tired, restless, blank, but don't worry—soon I will begin guiding you and giving you duties and work which will make you feel content. Once I start, nothing can stop me, so rest as much as you can until January 15th. On the 16th, work will commence in earnest.”

"There are lepers mingling with people in the Bazaar. The health officer wants an asylum where these lepers could be kept separate and he has asked me to help with it. I said I would do so if I could have entire charge so that I could wash the lepers myself. However infected they are it does not affect me nor my men helping me. When I wash the 'mad' at Rahuri I am washing universally."

"On my birthday I will give grain and a piece of cloth to fifteen thousand people. All of you will have to contribute in the work of making up the packages."

"From the 16th of January you will have to be getting up at 6:30 and retiring at 9:30 p.m. and carrying our the duties which will be given to each of you. From time to time I will take you to interesting places and beautiful caves in the hills near Nasik where the Rishis used to reside and meditate, but until my birthday, I do not want you to go out without my permission. You may feel confined, but it is for your own benefit. The visits to Meherabad and Rahuri start from the 5th of January."