stroll. Baba said to them, "I thought you had died—you (John) not Ben! Ben and I are young, but you'll die first, because you are older than Ben!" Everyone smiled again.

Baba continued: You have all spent so much money to come here, to be with Me, but there is no time now with all the appointments. But tomorrow, at Ojai, I want to be with you all, eat with you, play with you, fight with you!" He dismissed us then, with this promise of closer sahavas for the morrow. Our spirits lifted at once.

That morning there were many more interviews and the mezzanine was jammed with people. The hotel manager ungraciously ordered us all to retreat into a little room far from the interview room. I had a chance to introduce my mother to Baba, a long-awaited happy moment. A few moments later He called everyone in and we gathered around Him. Don stood and read the massage 'God, Man and the God-Man.' Baba asked Don if he understood it, and he gave us a précis in his own words. Baba continued, saying that in the God-Man, God as Father, Son and Man are one. God is infinite beyond all comprehension, Son is infinite mind, and man is the human side. The God-man experiences all three states simultaneously; in Him Father, Son and Man are one. Jesus was Father, Son and Man. In His (Baba's) Christ-conscious state He experiences all three states at once. As Father, He is infinite, and beyond all conception; as Son He is infinite but He comes down to our level; as Man He experiences Himself as human. Jesus Christ, the God-man or Avatar, took on the suffering of all humanity.

Of all the many messages read on the trip and later amplified by Baba, this one impressed me very deeply, and I felt for the first time I understood something of the Trinity.

After an hour for lunch, we returned to the hotel. A larger hall had been opened up behind the interview room and still more crowds came (about 200 came to see Baba in L. A.). As I sat by the door a very pretty girl came up and asked if she could meet Baba. She said "I was asking downstairs what the crowd was for, and somebody said It is the Messiah," and I want to see him." I told her to go in. She came out with her eyes shining and thanked me. A lucky passerby!

In contrast to the quick grasp of this young stranger, an Indian nature-healer hung about after his interview and tried to get his picture taken with Baba or have Baba endorse his treatments!