With the thousand rupees donated by Noshir Irani and others at the May meeting, Baba held a poor program in Ganeshkhind on Sunday, June 9th. Two hundred poor children below the age of fifteen (as Baba had specified) were brought by his Poona lovers, who were allowed to be present for the program. A few lovers from Bombay, Navsari, Hamirpur and Andhra, including Irene Conybeare and Francis Goldney, were also there. (Conybeare and Goldney had been sent to Mahabaleshwar by Baba in May, and stayed at the Race View Hotel for the summer.) As each child approached Baba in turn, and after offering his salutation by bowing to them, Baba handed them a piece of cloth and a sweet. While giving prasad, he would pat some children, asking, “Do you like school? … Do you play marbles? … Do you fly kites?” After giving prasad to the two hundred boys and girls, Baba had five more children called, to whom he also handed prasad. He gave sweets to some other children present as well.After finishing the program at noon, Baba, leaning on Eruch and Meherjee’s arms, walked to his room, where he called his certain ones. “It is rare these days that I have time to be with my lovers,” he remarked. “Whenever I go out anywhere I am surrounded on all sides by people waiting for my darshan. But today I am at last able to sit peacefully among a few of you.”
He directed the bhajan group to entertain him with ghazals. Madhusudan and Subhadra sang, and Baba had Aloba read a ghazal of the poet Jigar, which Baba explained.
He praised one singer and then declared, “Whom do I praise? I am the Singer and I am the Song! I am the tabla and I am the tabla player! I am in the harmonium and I myself am it! And I am the Sound that emanates from it! I am everything and I am everywhere! Now whom should I praise? I praise myself alone!”
In the course of the day, he remarked, “I am the Ocean… I am the Ancient One … I am eternal!”
After the arti was performed, all returned to their homes.
Lord Meher, Original Publication, Bhau Kalchuri, Vol. 15, pp. 5188 – 5189.