Our work, which is done for Baba, is of such a nature as to make us think of him continuously. Our meditations, which are on him, draw us more fully into him. Even the regulations of our daily lives, which are definitely ordered, are such as to make us think of him. We arise at half-past six in the morning because Baba said so; we retire at half-past nine at night because Baba said so. We eat our meals, hold our meditations, have our classes at certain hours because Baba said so. And so, gradually, we become more and more merged in him.

I find, in myself, an increasing telepathic rapport with Baba which is both interesting and encouraging. I have often noticed, in the years of my association with Baba, that if one has temporary problems - if questions as to right procedure in the immediate conduct of the individual life arise - if they are clearly stated, mentally, they become resolved, almost immediately, by a kind of intuitive process. The question, which has been mentally formed and projected, is inwardly answered.

Here in India I have observed not only that this continues, but that I seem often to be inwardly informed, in advance, of what Baba is going to do or say. Frequently the stance of the talks which he has given to us as a group has come to me, intuitively, days in advance of his visit. I have a feeling he is strengthening the inner connection between us for the sake of the work that each of us will have to do for him later. In a very definite and beautiful sense, we are being overshadowed.

I had a most curious experience in this respect some six weeks ago. One day, while Baba was at Nasik, he called us together in the living room and lay on the couch, withdrawn in consciousness, while we sat around on the floor. Every few minutes he would sit up, spell out something apparently most unimportant on his alphabet board, then withdraw again. Finally, he dismissed us. It was a strange performance, and I wondered about it.

At the time, I was writing an article for Baba's new magazine, and I went back to it. In an hour or so, the afternoon heat had become so intense that I had to stop and lie down. No sooner had I stretched out, however, than an important idea in relation to the article arose in my mind, and I had to get up and write it down. That accomplished, I lay down again. No sooner had my head touched the pillow than another important idea came to mind. Again I rose and wrote it down. This process continued for the balance of the afternoon, and was resumed the next day. I was amused about it. But it may well furnish a clue to one of Baba's methods of working. Chanji, Baba's secretary, says that Baba often uses his disciples as small-scale models to produce effects that he wishes to produce on a large scale in the world. Perhaps he uses himself as well!

There is another particularly interesting and more recent example of this inner communion which indicates how Baba helps us to see our individual shortcomings and gives us the power to correct them. It has a number of tributaries. Our meditation is one; a written account of our experiences with Baba is another; our group life is a third.

Early in February Baba gave us all new, individual instructions in regard to l meditation. When he gave me mine, he told me not to tell anyone but him anything I saw or heard during meditation. Within five days I had three extremely interesting and profoundly moving experiences. It was a period, I think, of intensive inner preparation for Baba's birthday celebration, which followed immediately after, for the rest of the months, and the whole of March, were void of this type of experience. In April, however, there was another period of inner quickening, with more experiences -- ecstatic, uplifting, illuminating.

It was made clear to me later, when this particular period of fermentation was over, that the vision and audition which Baba was stressing here was such as would naturally spontaneously eliminate desire and self-interest.

Originally, when Baba gave us our instructions for this particular meditation, I asked him, knowing how subtle things seen and heard inwardly can be, whether we should interrupt our meditation to write down anything that came to us in the course of it.