past. Today the anti-spiritual element is at its height. Tibet, once known as the seat of God, is now a military camp! Hypocritical saints abound in these times. Science has advanced in the last ten years much more than it has ever done before. Hence, when all these factors are at their highest, spirituality will also be at its highest, in order not only to balance these factors but to overrule them. The time for breaking my Silence is very near so hold fast to my daaman. I shall break my Silence in nine months time.'

Once Baba inquired about a lover's personal problem. Baba then said, "I am the Highest of the High and yet I descend to your level and inquire about your everyday problems. But I am simultaneously conscious of all the Seven Planes and am also beyond these planes."

A Sadhu came in to see Baba. Baba asked him if he had anything to say. He replied that he had come for Baba's blessings as he had plans to start a Universal Spiritual Center. Baba said, "Your idea is very good but do everything with 100% honesty. Let no hypocrisy enter into your doings. Do not allow your ego to be tickled. Do it with the thought that you are not doing it but that it is being done as it is God's will. Only then will my Nazar* [glance] be on you."

He told one of his lovers, "You may have a family and live in the world but be completely detached. What does it mean by being detached? It means that if your wife and children were suddenly to die, or you were to lose all your money, or you were to become a leper, you should take it as God's will, and not feel concerned about it."

A three-year-old girl was sitting opposite Baba. He called her and she at once came to Him and bowed down. Baba said that this girl had come to Poona from Sagar to see Him without her parents. Her neighbors were coming for Baba's darshan and she insisted on joining them.

Madhusudan sang a few ghazals and then all left for lunch. In the afternoon an Irani woman with her children came to see Baba. She told Baba, "Keep your Nazar on us." After she left, Baba told us that his Nazar is on everyone all the time but that it does not fall upon anyone. Once it falls on some person, that person instantaneously becomes Infinite Power, Infinite Knowledge and Infinite Bliss!

One lover who had been at Baba's school at Meherabad during the years

* "glance" is noted in Dr. Bharucha's book Glimpses of Guruprasad, page 312