Goher had to go to Bombay to appear for her medical board exam and she returned on 24 October. The next day at 9:00 A.M., Baba attended the opening in Ahmednagar of Goma Ganesh's Babawadi (nursery school), accompanied by Don, Kaka, Goher, Rano, Elizabeth and Norina. All the Meherabad mandali came as did the Ahmednagar followers. Deshmukh had come, and he read out a Marathi message. Kaka Chinchorkar also spoke.

This message from Baba was read out by Sarosh:

Selfless work, as you all know, has many aspects in the social and political fields. Each aspect thereof, though tinged by a particular cultural background, has its own merit and consequential reward. But the work relating to the welfare of babies is in a class by itself. Babies and infants, everywhere in the world, are the very epitome of God's purity and innocence. They are guileless and helpless — and yet they desire and expect nothing. Why do men see and recognize the enemy and the criminal outside? Because the so-called enemy and the criminal are already within them. Babies have no criminal or enemy within and, therefore, see none outside.

I am also called "Baba," which endearingly means a baby. In fact, all God-realized souls are unsophisticated, like babies. I therefore see and enjoy my purity and colorlessness in the unselfconscious ones — the babies.

This is what is real selfless service, when you are serving the little selfless ones — and this is tantamount to rendering service directly unto God. The Biblical statement "And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name, receiveth me," bears out what I have said.

I bless you all.

Kanchan Panday, the daughter of the Ahmednagar photographer Bhaiya Panday, became gravely ill, and the doctor held no hope for her survival. She was so weak she could not even raise her hand. Her temperature had risen to 105°, and her family was terribly worried. Adi Sr. brought Panday to Meherazad at 3:00 P.M. on 29 October 1948, and Baba asked him, "Why have you come?"

He replied, "What is the use of our having faith in you when my daughter is about to die and you have no thought for us?"

Smiling, Baba asked, "What is the matter?" Panday told him about Kanchan and explained that she had not eaten anything for several days. Baba had Don bring two potatoes, and giving them to Panday spelled out, "After boiling these well, give them to Kanchan to eat."