13/4/40    Panjini, (Goa). We got here on Thursday morning after some trouble with the Portuguese customs; Baba said the man was good and within his rights asking to see some luggage from the top of the bus: Norina flattered him a bit anyhow. On reaching old Goa at the Church of St. Francis Xavier, Baba sent Elizabeth into a restaurant by the roadside to enquire when the church was open. Out she came with an old man, with long hair and beard, and old topi and a very old suit, looking like Moses. Then the same evening we went along to see St. Francis Xavier's tomb, and on leaving out came this man, and he chatted about dramas he had written in Karachi — so many. He spoke good English and talked to us, but kept glancing quickly at Baba. He was here writing a book, he said, about the place — he was a Catholic.

Baba told Jal to ask him if he required any help — he said “No thanks, very much". Afterwards Baba told us we were all blind, and we didn't see at the time that he was Baba's agent — a very advanced conscious agent. All his chat about dramas, Bernard Shaw and whatnot, had inner meaning, and he was really talking to Baba all the time. Baba told us he would leave the next day. The next day Elizabeth met him again, and he told her that he was leaving at once, he felt he must go to a cold country, he didn't know if it was his beard, but he felt all on fire. (Those readers who know a little about initiations, will recognize that this feeling which he had denoted Baba's spiritual working for him — Ed.)

He had intended to stay a long time, but "now he must go", he said — just as Baba had told us. Some job for Baba I suppose...(Is it not striking that in the very place where Baba wished His identity undisclosed, for His own reasons, He was recognized silently by one of His own agents there?-- Ed.)

Jal and Kaka are out mast-hunting. One old man I found the other day, Baba washed — I helped a little bit on the path, Baba said. But He wants an old woman, His agent here for Goa, but although they've found her, they can't persuade her to come with them to Baba's hotel. She is old, with short grey hair, looks like a man, and takes no notice of them. (There are instances of Masters working spiritually through the contacts made by their disciples with other people they wish to get into touch with, without the Masters seeing those other persons themselves or making any outer contact with them. -- Ed.)

Baba loves Goa, He says the atmosphere is spiritual here — it is pleasant, a change from British India. Yesterday Norina, Elizabeth, and I went to see the Governor, on Baba's order, about the island off Karwar called "Anjidiv ",* he said no renting or concessions could be given to anyone — it was law: a shrewd old boy, I thought, but polite, kind and decent. Baba now wants the peninsula opposite Karwar for a centre . . . so Norina writes about it.

17/4/40    Wednesday, Amboli. We got a boy at a village outside Goa, an orphan, knows only Portuguese and Conkery languages and a little English. He was servant to a priest, very good boy, Baba likes him . . . a spiritual type, he says. He is about 15, named "Santana Fernandas". We had some trouble getting him, having to argue with the priest, sisters and brothers, and what not; but he came with us the next morning alright — nearly all the village there to see him off, as he was the most popular boy of the village — bright and intelligent. Much sisterly weeping when he left.

Baba said this Norway move of Germany's would not benefit her at all but

*The Awakener original page has Ajadiv, an obvious typo. Wikipedia confirms it should be Anjidiv. -webmaster JK