of myself as something other than a man — a dog, a parrot? No — because I am one with my body. And so Baba was one with God."

"What does Baba say about when He comes back?"

"That He doesn't say. He said 'Don't ask me that question now, ask me after 700 years.' Imagine! I told Him jokingly, 'After 700 years I'm going to ask you for a new car!"

"Will the Avatar come back after he drops the body?"

"He used to say 'I'll come back, I'll come back,' but to expect Him to come back in the same body — what's the importance of the body after all! He always used to say, 'I'm not the body.' He said, 'My time has come — coming, coming, came,' and we didn't realize it at all. He used to say 'Something will happen that has never happened before.' Meher Baba has dropped the body — it happens only once. To come back in the same body? What's the body? The Avatar can take on 10,000 bodies at once. Body is like a coat, He can use it, drop it. Should we want Him to continue living in the same body for our pleasure in looking at it? — supposing He had told us in advance, He was going to drop the body . . .We would have begged Him not to. . . what a commotion! He just dropped His body in the most natural way. Everything He has done in a simple manner; His birth was very simple, very human, the beginning of His silence was simple, His illness was simple, the breaking of his silence was very simple, the dropping of His body was very natural . . .Filis, I would like to hear you say something."

Filis: "We're so happy to have you here."

Adi: "He used to (mention) Filis all the time . . . He loved you very much. Do you know Kaikobad, who stayed with Baba? He has been repeating Baba 's name 100,000 times a day for so many years. Well, he went to the hospital, for over two months. Baba asked me to move him back to Meherabad and I had to pay the hospital bill. Kaikobad gave me a high denomination note and I went to the cashier to pay the bill." Adi tells how he lost the note, looked for it everywhere. Then, he locked himself in his room and called on Baba. He went out and looked again, and could not find it. He sent out a boy who came running up with the note he had found 24 hours after it was lost — just where it had fallen from his pocket! Even the sweeper had not found it! And all the time he had been in his room 'fighting' with Baba, saying he must have the note.

"Baba says 'I do not do miracles, not at all,' but I got back that note — how? He said He doesn't do things like that, but He also said the universe is Baba's Will. So it is under His control. Baba may have to take control, sometimes . . ."

"Mani speaks about Kaikobad seeing Baba"—, someone asks.

Adi says: "When Baba said 'Kaikobad is able to see Me' someone asked, 'Baba, is he able to see you as you are or does he see you as he is able to see you?' You understand the difference. Baba replied: 'If you see Me as I am, you become Me.' Kaikobad sees light, something subtle, because of the purity of his mind. . . what he is able to see today he is unable to see tomorrow. As I said, Baba once told the mandali what He gives, lasts forever. What is illusion, within illusion, compared to the Reality? Both are illusion! And here we are in illusion, talking about illusion! And now it 's time to go to bed!"

Laughter, in the Poona Club lounge. 'Jai Baba!' to dear "Brother Adi" who was so kind in giving us his reminiscences.

Friday June 6th: The third day of Darshan.

Again, we are in the hall of Guruprasad, on time—the Avatar's time—9 o'clock. We are greeted by Eruch. Mehera and a Western lover garlanded Baba's chair; then Eruch read an English translation of a Zoroastrian Prayer chanted by Kohiyar Satarawala, who used to sing outside Baba's bungalow early in the morning at Satara. He runs the Ripon Hotel at Mahabaleshwar, a hill station near Poona where Baba stayed in the summer before He began to stay at Guruprasad. Eruch also conveys love greetings to us all from Dr. Ram Ginde, who rang up from Bombay.